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Organic Chemistry of Photography

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Abstract

Modern photographic films and papers for amateur use are based on the negative-positive process. As shown at the top of Fig. 10.1, a negative film is composed at least of three photo-sensitive layers, i.e., a red-sensitive emulsion layer with a cyan coupler, a green-sensitive emulsion layer with a magenta coupler, and a blue-sensitive emulsion layer with a yellow coupler. In contrast to the reversal process which involves black-and-white development in addition to color development, the negative-positive process undergoes color development only. Hence, the resulting picture is a negative image (i.e., a complementary color image) of the original image.

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Fujita, S. (2004). Couplers. In: Organic Chemistry of Photography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09130-2_10

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