Method for image formation and apparatus for development processing
AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.
InventorsTakatoshi Ishikawa, Hideaki Nomura
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for forming an image through either basic development processing or non-basic development processing on the same processor to provide equal image quality, in which an exposed color light-sensitive material (e.g., color negative film) is processed under non-basic conditions (e.g., rapid processing conditions), image information is read out from the developed film and converted to optical or electrical digital information, the digital information is subjected to image processing to obtain target image characteristics which should have been obtained under basic development processing conditions, and the resulting image characteristics are output to a printer.
Claims14
A method for forming an image comprising development processing an exposed silver halide color light-sensitive material and outputting image information obtained from the developed image to a printer, wherein
- (1) the kind of the exposed color light-sensitive material is detected,
- (2) the exposed color light-sensitive material is development processed under non-basic development processing conditions which are chosen according to the information as detected or separately furnished,
- (3) image formation is read out from the developed color light-sensitive material and converted to optical or electrical digital information,
- (4) the optical or electrical digital information is subjected to image processing to obtain target image characteristics which should have been obtained if said color light-sensitive material had been development processed under basic development processing conditions, and
- (5) the resulting image characteristics are output to the printer, to thereby output image information having the same image quality as could be obtained by basic development processing;
- wherein said non-basic development processing is (A) fixing-omitted development processing which contains a color development step and a bleaching step but does not contain a fixing step, (B) desilvering-omitted development processing in which a color development step is followed by residual color reduction processing and no desilvering step is carried out, or (C) bleaching-omitted development processing which does not contain a bleaching step;
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- wherein the total amount of waste solutions from the development processing is not more than 60 ml per a 35-mm 24-exposure roll of film.
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