I'm impatient waiting to hear back from Foma, thus my appeal here.

As I indicated in my other thread on Foma Variant III and Classic, I ran into a couple of issues to be clarified. Anyone who has experience can surely clear them up.

1. Variant Matt, in my batch, has a subtle but visible texture, slightly wavy parallel lines running parallel to the short side of an 8x10. Is this their normal "matt" surface? (Ilford's is smooth.)

2. I received a Classic package labelled matt, but the surface is a nearly smooth luster, which I think must actually be their Fine Grain surface. It's similar to Kodak's E surface, a luster rather than gloss. It certainly isn't matt. Can someone confirm this?

Thanks.