I recently ordered some film and supplies and decided to check out maybe getting some more paper. With only a couple hundred sheets of Foma left it was about that time. I went to the B&H site and quickly became shocked when I saw the price of $176.99 for 100 sheets of 8X10.

#$%^&*()??!!?$#%^&!

The last time I purchased the paper it was $149.99 and before that $99.99.  I’m sure everything costs more to make these days but this is a little nuts!

I’m certain though that the latest price increase is brought to us care of the dear leader’s tariffs or maybe even something worse. Maybe he thinks analog black and white photographers are democrats living in blue states and it’s another act of retribution.  Like withholding clean energy funding from sixteen states, or dismantling government operations like the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado because the governor won’t do his bidding.

So what do I do? Hold off and hope things return to a somewhat more normal or buy now because of the fear that the price of foreign made paper will go even higher? Who knows, with you know who’s cowboy foreign policy and appeasement proclivities, Putin may just decide to invade the Czech Republic and I won’t be able to get my beloved paper at all!

I think I’ll wait until the new year and my next credit card billing cycle to take another look.

Stay well,

Michael