Color image forming method and digital image forming method
AssigneeKonica Corporation
InventorsHiromoto Ii, Hiroyuki Hoshino, Noriyuki Kokeguchi
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Abstract
A color image forming method is disclosed, comprising exposing a silver halide color photographic material and developing the exposed photographic material at 43 to 180° C. to form a color image, wherein at least one light-sensitive layer comprising a silver halide emulsion comprising tabular silver halide grains having an average aspect ratio of at least 8. There is also disclosed a digital image forming process, wherein image recording information of the photographic material which was formed by use of the color image forming method is coverted to digital image information through an image sensor.
Claims18
A method of forming a color image comprising:
- (a) imagewise exposing a silver halide color photographic material comprising a support having thereon at least three light-sensitive layers,
- (b) subjecting the exposed photographic material to color development at a developing temperature of 43 to 180° C. to form a color image, and
- (c) converting information of the formed color image to digital image information through an image sensor,
- wherein at least one light-sensitive layer of the three light-sensitive layers comprises a silver halide emulsion comprising silver halide grains including tabular grains, said tabular grains accounting for at least 50% of total grain projected area and having an average aspect ratio of at least 8, and said silver halide grains having an average selenium content of 3.0×10−8 to 5.0×10−6 mol per grain.
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