| (57) A silver halide color photographic material light-sensitive is disclosed. The light-sensitive
material comprises a red-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer, a green-sensitive
silver halide emulsion layer and a blue-sensitive silver halide emulsion layer. The
light-sensitive material satisfise the following requirements:
(1) at least one of the red-sensitive emulsion layer and the green-sensitive emulsion
layer comprises two or more emulsion sub-layers,
(2) an emulsion sub-layer having the highest speed among the emulsion sub-layers contains
silver halide grains having a volume average size of from 0.20 µm to 0.55 µm,
(3) the light-sensitive material contains a diffusible DIR compound capable of splitting
of a development inhibitor or its precursor which has a diffusibility not less than
0.34, and the amount of the DIR compound satisfise the following equation:
wherein A is the sum of molar amount of the diffusible DIR compound contained in one
square meter of the light-sensitive material, and B is sum of the surface area of
light-sensitive silver halide emulsion grains contained in one square meter of of
the light-sensitive material represented by cm². The light-sensitive material is improved
in graininess, sharpness and color reproducibility.
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