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Although color photography based on the negative-positive process is popular, its mechanism is not so well-known to users. For example, it is seen that a negative film after development (in the transparent region) is orange in color. Why is this? This chapter is devoted to giving an answer to this question.

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Fujita, S. (2004). Colored Couplers. In: Organic Chemistry of Photography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09130-2_12

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