Blue-sensitive film for radiography with desired image tone

A blue-sensitive radiographic silver halide film comprising a support having first and second major surfaces,

• said radiographic silver halide film having disposed on said first major support surface, one or more hydrophilic colloid layers including a first silver halide emulsion layer, and on the second major support surface, one or more hydrophilic colloid layers including a second silver halide emulsion layer,
• said first and second silver halide emulsion layers having essentially the same composition and comprising predominantly tabular silver halide grains that have an aspect ratio of from about 20 to about 30, a grain thickness of from about 0.10 to about 0.14 μm, and comprising at least 95 mol % bromide and from about 0.5 to about 2 mol % iodide, based on total silver halide in said emulsion layers, substantially all of said iodide being present in an internal localized portion of said tabular silver halide grains that from about 1.7 to about 85 volume % of said grains wherein 100% volume represents the surface of said grains,
• wherein said tabular silver halide grains in said first and second silver halide emulsion layers are dispersed in a hydrophilic polymeric vehicle mixture comprising from about 0.8% to about 1.2% of deionized oxidized gelatin, based on the total dry weight of said polymeric vehicle mixture, and
• wherein said first silver halide emulsion layer further comprises 2-mercapto-1,3-benzotriazole, 2-mercapto-1,3-benzoxazole, or 2-mercapto-1,3-benzimidazole at from about 0.5 to about 0.8 mmole per mole of silver in said first silver halide emulsion layer.