PURPOSE: To improve color reproducibility and to prevent the deterioration in graininess by incorporating a coupler represented by a specified chemical formula into at least one layer of a sensitive material and a coupler represented by a specified chemical formula into at least one layer.
CONSTITUTION: A coupler represented by formula I is incorporated into at least one layer of a sensitive material and a coupler represented by formula II into at least one layer. In the formula I, R1 is substd. aryl having substituents required to regulate the sum total of the Hammett's substituent constants δto ≥0.2 and R2 is substd. aryl having substituents required to regulate the sum total of the Hammett's substituent constants δ to ≥0.75. In the formula II, R1 is H or a substituent, Z is a group of nonmetallic atoms required to form a 5-membered azole ring contg. 2 or 3N atoms and X is H or a group releasable at the time of coupling with the oxidized body of a developing agent. A color sensitive material preventing the deterioration of the fastness of an image even with a photographic processing soln. feed of formaldehyde is obtd.
MIZUKAWA HIROKI