Color negative film for producing images of reduced granularity when viewed following electronic conversion

A color negative photographic element for producing a color image suited for conversion to an electronic form and subsequent reconversion into a viewable form comprised of

• a support and, coated on the support,
• a plurality of hydrophilic colloid layers, including radiation-sensitive silver halide emulsion layers, forming layer units for separately recording blue, green and red exposures,
• each of the layer units containing dye image-forming coupler chosen to produce image dye having an absorption half-peak bandwidth lying in a different spectral region in each layer unit,
• WHEREIN
• the layer units each contain less than 0.05 millimole/m2 of colored masking coupler,
• the layer units each contain at least 0.8 g/m2 of silver in the form of silver halide and exhibit a dye image gamma of from 0.2 to less than 1.5 and an exposure latitude of at least 2.7 log E, where E is exposure measured in lux-seconds,
• development inhibitor releasing compound is present in at least one of layer units, and
• greater than 50 mole percent of the development inhibitor compound in at least one of the layer units exhibits a diffusion factor of less than 0.4.