Silver halide photographic material and method for processing the same

A method for processing a silver halide photographic material with an automatic processor, which comprises imagewise exposing said silver halide photographic material to light and then developing said exposed silver halide photographic material with a developing solution containing (i) a developing agent represented by formula (I') and (ii) no hydroquinones, for 5 to 30 seconds:

• ##STR74## wherein R1 and R2 each represents a hydroxyl group, an amino group, a mercapto group or an alkylthio group;
• P and Q each represents a hydroxyl group, a carboxyl group, an alkoxyl group, a hydroxyalkyl group, a carboxyalkyl group, a sulfo group, a sulfoalkyl group, an amino group, an alkyl group or an aryl group, or P and Q each represents an atomic group necessary to form a 5- to 8-membered ring by connecting with each other together with two vinyl carbon atoms substituted with R1 and R2 and the carbon atom substituted with Y;
• Y represents .dbd.O or .dbd.N--R3;
• and R3 represents a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, an alkyl group, an acyl group, a sulfoalkyl group or a carboxyalkyl group;
• wherein said silver halide photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer containing silver halide grains, a surface protective layer as an uppermost layer, and a hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer, wherein the sum of the silver amount contained in each of said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer is from 0.8 g/m.sup.2 to 1.5 g/m.sup.2 on one side of said support;
• said hydrophilic colloid layer other than said at least one light-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer and said surface protective layer contains a non-elusive solid fine grain dispersion dye represented by formula (I);
• and a mercapto compound represented by formula (II) is contained in at least one of any hydrophilic colloid layer:
• ##STR75## wherein R.sup.10 and R.sup.11 each represents an alkyl group, an aralkyl group or an alkenyl group;
• R.sup.12 and R.sup.14 each represents a hydrogen atom or an atomic group necessary to form a 5- or 6-membered ring by linking with each other;
• R.sup.13 represents an aryl group, --N(R.sup.19)(R.sup.20), --SR.sup.21 or --OR.sup.22 ;
• R.sup.19 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group;
• R.sup.20 represents an aryl group, a sulfonyl group or an acyl group;
• R.sup.19 and R.sup.20 may be linked with each other to form a ring;
• R.sup.21 and R.sup.22 each represents an aryl group;
• and R.sup.15, R.sup.16, R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 each represents an alkyl group, and R.sup.15 and R.sup.16, and R.sup.17 and R.sup.18 may be linked with each other to form a ring;
• ##STR76## wherein Z represents a heterocyclic ring having at least one of --SO.sub.3 M, --COOR.sub.1, --OH and --NHR.sub.2 bonded directly or indirectly to said heterocyclic ring;
• M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or a quaternary ammonium group or a quaternary phosphonium group;
• R.sub.1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal atom, or an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms;
• R.sub.2 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having from 1 to 6 carbon atoms, --COR.sub.3, --COOR.sub.3 or --SO.sub.2 R.sub.3 ;
• R.sub.3 represents a hydrogen atom, an aliphatic group or an aromatic group.