US2635959A - Process of producing multilayer color negatives containing masking images for color correction purposes - Google Patents

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US2635959A
US2635959A US703480A US70348046A US2635959A US 2635959 A US2635959 A US 2635959A US 703480 A US703480 A US 703480A US 70348046 A US70348046 A US 70348046A US 2635959 A US2635959 A US 2635959A
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Harold C Harsh
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  • This invention relates to color photography, and more particularly to a process of producing multilayer color negatives containing masking images for color correction purposes.
  • the color negative In the production of color prints from multilayer color negatives, the color negative consists of yellow, magenta, and cyan images in the different layers.
  • the cyan image represents the red, the magenta image the green, and the yellow image the blue record of the original subject.
  • Color positive prints or transparencies may be obtained from such color negatives by direct printing onto a multi-layer color positive film or paper, or by making color separation negatives which are used for making the color positive prints. These color negatives do not as a rule, completely satisfy the spectral requirements for trichromatic color reproduction.
  • the magenta colored image formed by the imposition of green light upon the green sensitive layer, records the green densities. This image should transmit the blue and the red primaries, completely.
  • a further object is to provide a method for ob- I taining color corrected color negati-vema-teri'als wherein the color correction is integrally bound with the dye images,
  • Thesilver chloride thus formed is'then removed by bathing the bleached film in a saturated aqueous solution of ammonium, potassium, or sodium sulfite, ammonium chloride, ammonia or other'inorganic agent that difierentially removes silver chloride from a mixture of silver-halides.
  • the processing of the film up to this point must be efiectuated in complete darkness, after which a yellow safelight may be employed.
  • the silver-halide remaining in the film has considerable sensitivity to blue light, though practically none to green or red light.
  • the silver-halides within the magenta and cyan layers becomedevelopable by means of a black andwhitedeveloper into masking silver images whose gradation is controlled by the degree of final development given,
  • the overall density of the masking images is controlled by the length of the-exposure given the film,-j-ust prior todevelopment, which must, of course, be carried out in darkness-though yellow safelight illumination is permitted.
  • the film can be bathed with a 1% aqueous solution of potassium or sodium iodide.
  • This solution converts the residual silver-halides in the green and red sensitive layers into silver iodide, which will act as a mask.
  • the iodide bath may be replaced by a sulfide bath of the type used to formsilver sulfide images,such as a 1% solution of sodium sulfide.
  • a bleach bath such as:
  • Potassium ferricyanide ;'grams 40 Sodium bromide e do Water to make liter 1 will convert the silver to silver bromide without affecting either silver iodide or silver sulfide to any appreciable extent.
  • Example I A multi-layer photographic color film such as prepared according to United States Patents 2,179,228; 2,179,239; 2,186,849; 2,220,187; and 2,357,388, was exposed to a colored object and then developed for 15 minutes in a color developer of the following composition:
  • Potassium ferricyanide grams 50 Sodium chloride -d'o- 50 Water to make liter 1 Thableached. film was washed in running wator for 5 minutes and the silver chloride formed in. the bleaching bath was removed by bathing in a. concentrated solution of sodium sulfite. The concentration normally required may vary from to saturation. Thepreferred concentration ofthesodiumsulfite, however,,is
  • the film contained a dyedmage in each of the 3, emulsion layers.
  • the silverhalide images in the latter layers cannot be developedunlessexposed to. light prior to. development.
  • the treated. film was washed in running water for several minutes and exposed to the light of a 500 watt lamp at adistance of 5. feet,.for, a, pcriodof 1 minutes
  • the exposed film was developed in a hour-staining, black and whitedeveloper of thefollowing. composition:
  • Example II Example II was repeated with the exception that after color development, the film was further developed in a non-staining black and white developer such as: I
  • the colored andblack and white developed film The colored andblack and white developed film.
  • Example I was then differentially fixed and processed through to completion in .the manner. set forth in Example I. This. procedure hasthe advantage over the .procedurein Example I inthat itxremoves all danger of having a. residual, negative silver image developed in the final or masking.
  • the first exposure is exposed and. convertedxto metallic. silver thereby.
  • Example III Example I was repeatedup to and including the differential fixation of the image layers following color development.
  • Thev film was washed in running water for 10. minutes, andthen subjected to the action of a 1% solution of potassium iodide, for a period of 10 minutes.
  • the positive silver-halide images, present, in the cyan and magenta layers, were converted into silver iodide, which is stable and non-sensitive to the actionof light.
  • a silver salt such as silver ferrocyanide
  • othersolutions of the commonly known oxidizingagent which convert the silver to a silver salt other than sil-- ver iodide may be used, such as, for example, ferric chloride, copper sulfate in the presenceof bromide or chloride ions, and the like.
  • the bleached film was washedin running water for several minutes and; treated with a normal fixing bath for 5 minutes, washed, and then dried.
  • the rate of fixation of the silver salts such as silver chloride, silver bromide, silver ferrocyanide, and the like, is so much greater than the dissolution of silver iodide that to all intents and purposes, the action can be considered as affecting only the silver chloride, silver bromide andsilver ferricyamde, thus leaving the silver iodide image substantially unimpaired.
  • the silver iodide positive images, in the cyanand magenta layers serve as masking images in the same manner as the silver images of Examples I and II.
  • the procedure, of the foregoing example has the advantage in that it cuts down the number of processing steps and reduces the time of proc.- essing.
  • Multi-layer photographic film such as prepared according to United States Patents 2,269,158.; 2,266,443; 2,272,191; 2,284,877; 2,289,803; 2,304,940; 2,311,020; 2,350,380; 72,397,- 864-5-6 and 7, and the like, can alsobe processed into color negatives containing masking images in accordance with the present invention.
  • Various other modifications will occur to those skilled in'the art which, however, do not depart from the spirit and nature of this invention, and we do not intend to be limited in the patent granted except as required by the following claims.
  • the blue sensitive layer is the top layer with a yellow colloidal silver filter layer between the top blue layer and middle green layer
  • said sensitized layers containing color formers capable of producing dye images complementary in color to the one for which the layer is sensitized, by exposing the said multilayer film to a colored object and color developing the same
  • the improvement which comprises developing all layers of the said color developed film by a single development in a developer incapable of coupling with the color former in the layers for a time sufficient to bring the development to gamma infinity, selectively fixing the residual silver halides in the blue sensitive layer, bleaching the metallic silver in all layers including the filter layer to silver chloride at the same time so as to destroy the green and red sensitivities of the middle and lower layers, removing the silver chloride thus formed, exposing the residual silver halides in the green and red

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GB541266A (en) * 1940-02-17 1941-11-20 Eastman Kodak Co Improvements in methods of producing colour photographs employing colour correction
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US2340656A (en) * 1936-03-24 1944-02-01 Chromogen Inc Process for the production of partial color selection pictures out of subtractive multicolor images
GB501040A (en) * 1936-05-09 1939-02-20 Kodak Ltd Improvements in colour photographic development
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