Claims
- 1. A process for forming a color negative image in an exposed color negative recording material,
- the process comprising the steps of
- a) developing the color negative recording material with a color developer to give a dye image having a maximum image dye density of at least 2.0 and a positive contrast of 0.9 or less, and then
- b) bleaching and fixing, or bleach-fixing, the material to remove silver and silver halide,
- the color negative recording material containing a support and at least two silver halide emulsion imaging units sensitive to different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, each unit containing a dye forming coupler, at least one unit is a high tabularity unit which:
- a) comprises from 0.2 to 2.0 g/m.sup.2, based on silver, of a silver halide emulsion wherein greater than 50% of the projected area of the grains is provided by tabular grains having a tabularity of between 50 and 25,000;
- b) has a thickness of less than about 4.0 .mu.m; and
- c) comprises no more than 2.0 parts by weight of silver per part by weight of coupler.
- 2. A process of claim 1, wherein the tabular grains have a tabularity of between 100 and 5,000.
- 3. The process of claim 1 wherein the tabular grains have a tabularity of between 100 and 2,500.
- 4. The process of claim 1 wherein said high tabularity unit comprises at least two silver halide emulsion layers having different sensitivities to the same region of the spectrum.
- 5. The process of claim 4 wherein the more sensitive layer comprises from 0.10 to 1.0 g/m.sup.2 of silver.
- 6. The process of claim 4 wherein the more sensitive layer comprises from 0.20 to 0.6 g/m.sup.2 of silver.
- 7. The process of claim 1 wherein there is from 0.8 to 1.5 part of silver per part of coupler in the high tabularity unit.
- 8. The process of claim 1 wherein there is from 0.5 to 1 part of silver per part of coupler in the high tabularity unit.
- 9. The process of claim 1 wherein the unit thickness of the high tabularity unit is from 2.5 to 3.5 .mu.m.
- 10. The process of claim 1 comprises at least 3 silver halide imaging units sensitive to different regions of the spectrum.
- 11. The process of claim 1 wherein the tabular grains comprise at least one of silver bromide or silver bromoiodide.
- 12. The process of claim 1 wherein the high tabularity unit is a cyan dye forming unit or a magenta dye forming unit.
- 13. The process of claim 1 wherein the high tabularity unit contains a development inhibitor releasing coupler.
Parent Case Info
This is a continuation of application Ser. No. 589,159, filed Sep. 27, 1990 now abandoned, which is a continuation-in-part of U.S. Ser. No. 419,177, filed Oct. 10, 1989 now abandoned.
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Continuations (1)
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Continuation in Parts (1)
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