| 摘要 |
A silver halide color photographic material is provided, containing a pyrazoloazole type magenta coupler of the general formula (I): <IMAGE> (I) wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent; X represents a hydrogen atom or a group which is removable by a coupling reaction with an oxidation product of an aromatic primary amine developing agent; Za, Zb and Zc each represents a methine group, a substituted methine group, =N- or -NH-; one of Za-Zb bond and Zb-Zc bond is a double bond and the other is a single bond; one of Za-Zb and Zb-Zc may optionally be condensed with a 5- to 7-membered ring when Za and Zb or Zb and Zc are both carbon atoms; R1 or X may form a dimer or higher polymer; when Za, Zb or Zc is a substituted methine group, said methine group may optionally form a dimer or higher polymer; characterized in that two or more monodispersed silver halide emulsions each having a different sensitivity are admixed and incorporated into the silver halide emulsion layer in said material, said monodispersed silver halide emulsion being regulated to have a ratio of sigma / &upbar& d of 0.2 or less, where sigma means a statistical standard deviation in the particle size distribution and &upbar& d means an average particle diameter. The present silver halide color photographic material may form a magenta image of good light absorption, and the gradation control thereof is easy. Thus, the present photographic material is characterized by improved color reproductivity and tone reproductivity.
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