New Tri-x and HC-110 dev experiences

I sort of disregarded the new times for HC-110 in new Tri-X as a

mistake after reading the web and this forum but I just developed

my first few rolls and am not too pleased.

 

I usually develop the old Tri-X (120) in HC-110 for 7.5 minutes at

68 degrees and get great negs. For my first few rolls of the new

Tri-X, I dropped the times down to 6.5 minutes but it still resulted

in overly dense, contrasty negs (and I like them pretty dense).

Still printable though.

 

Was wondering if anyone had similiar experiences as most of

what I've read on the web tended to suggest to disregard the

new times.

I've gotten excellent results with 35mm new Tri-X rated at 250 and developed in HC-

110 1:32 in stainless-steel tanks/reels for 5 minutes at 68 degrees, with four

inversions of the tank at the start of each minute.

I was pretty skeptical about the new tri-x times with hc-110 as well. And finally I found some new stuff to run some test development. Here's what I did. I dug out an older packaging of the new emulsion (before they altered it to remove the inconsistancy in the times). One column says the time for a given temp and dilution, and another column gives the relative change in time as compared to the old emulsion. So for dil B at 68, the one column said something like 3 or 4 minutes. The other column said +1/4minute. I used the +1/4minute added to the 7.5 minutes from the dataguide, and my negs came out looking about the same as any of my other old emulsion negs processed to kodak dataguide numbers. Just my particular results. YMMV.