Silver halide photographic material

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a photographic constituting layer containing at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and optionally at least one light-insensitive layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion sensitized by a methine dye represented by following formula (I) and at least one layer on said support contains at least one compound represented by one of following formulae (II) to (X);

• ##STR15## wherein Q represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 5-membered or 6-membered ring;
• R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that R.sub.1 represents a group containing an aromatic carbon ring and R.sub.2 and R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, or R.sub.1 and R.sub.3 (or R.sub.2) each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent and R.sub.2 (or R.sub.3) represents a group selected from the group consisting of phenoxyethyl, 1-naphthoxyethyl, 2-naphthoxyethyl and 4-phenylphenoxyethyl, and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each does not represent a hydrogen atom;
• L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 each represents a methine group;
• n represents an integer of from 0 to 6;
• M represents a counter ion for neutralizing an electrostatic charge;
• and m represents 0 or 1;
• ##STR16## wherein R.sup.2, R.sup.3, R.sup.4, R.sup.5, R.sup.6, R.sup.8, and R.sup.9 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, or an aryl group;
• R.sup.7 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a nitro group, a carboxy group, a sulfo group, a sulfamoyl group, a hydroxy group, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or a thiazolyl group;
• R.sup.10 represents an alkylene group or an arylene group;
• R.sup.11, R.sup.12, and R.sup.13 each represents a halogen atom or an alkyl group;
• R.sup.14 and R.sup.15 each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic residue;
• R.sup.16 and R.sup.17 each represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, or an aralkyl group;
• said R.sup.16 and R.sup.17 may combine with each other to form a benzene ring;
• R.sup.18 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group;
• R.sup.19 represents an alkyl group or an aryl group;
• Y represents a halogen atom;
• Z.sup.1 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a thiazolyl ring;
• Z.sup.2 represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 6-membered ring;
• n represents 0 or 1;
• and m represents 1 or 2;
• wherein said silver halide emulsion contains silver chloride grains or silver chlorobromide grains having at least 90 mol % silver chloride, and a total content of calcium contained in said photographic constituting layer is not more than 10 mg/m.sup.2.

A silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon a photographic constituting layer containing at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, wherein the silver halide emulsion layer contains a silver halide emulsion sensitized by a methine dye represented by following formula (I) and wherein a total content of calcium contained in the photographic constituting layer is not more than 10 mg/m.sup.2 ;

• ##STR17## wherein Q represents a non-metallic atomic group necessary for forming a 5-membered or 6-membered ring;
• R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, R.sub.6, R.sub.7, R.sub.8, R.sub.9, R.sub.10 and R.sub.11 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, provided that R.sub.1 represents a group containing an aromatic carbon ring or R.sub.2 represents a group selected from the group consisting of phenoxyethyl, 1-naphthoxyethyl, 2-naphthoxyethyl, 4-phenylphenoxyethyl, and methoxyethyl, or R.sub.3 represents a group selected from the group consisting of phenoxyethyl, 1-naphthoxyethyl, 2-naphthoxyethyl, 4-phenylphenoxyethyl, and methoxyethyl, and R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 each does not represent a hydrogen atom;
• L.sub.1, L.sub.2 and L.sub.3 each represents a methine group;
• n represents an integer of from 0 to 6;
• M represents a counter ion for neutralizing an electrostatic charge;
• and m represents 0 or 1;
• wherein said silver halide emulsion contains silver chloride grains or silver chlorobromide grains having at least 90 mol % silver chloride.