BayPhoto MetalPrint vs. fotoflot

[dirtbikejunkie]

has anyone compared (in person) the MetalPrint from BayPhoto vs the wall mounts from fotoflot? which do you like better and why?

[Andy]

I'm sure few have.

I have both. They're completely different! Metal is .. awesome - shiny, metallic, high gloss with superb detail. Floats off the wall.

Fotoflots - traditional photo paper on plexi with a gorgeous edge trimming process, floats off the wall.

[mercphoto]

Fotoflots - traditional photo paper on plexi with a gorgeous edge trimming process, floats off the wall.
Is that the same as what I think is called a "face mount"? The photo is somehow glued to a piece of clear plexi with a transparent adhesive, with the plexi on top the image (not behind the paper).

[bhogle]

has anyone compared (in person) the MetalPrint from BayPhoto vs the wall mounts from fotoflot? which do you like better and why?

I have tested both. I love the magnetic bracket on Fotoflot prints. Lets you rotate pictures without drilling more holes.

BayPhoto prints have nice sheen to them, if you like that sort of thing for a particular print. BayPhoto prints also float off the wall twice as much as Fotoflot prints. I like that a lot.

But the one and only deciding factor for me was color reproduction. Bay Photo nails it every time for me. Fotoflot was awful. I compared whites on two different images using LAB values, the B channels differ by 1 but the L & A channels are exactly the same. The difference is clear on the prints - much of the whites had a yellow cast in the fotoflot print - a bad yellow cast. The bay photo metal print came out as expected with better color in the blue areas of my image too (I can't comment on those L values though).

I recieved my fotoflot this week. Its so bad that I need to contact Fotoflot.

Take all this with a grain of salt though -- even though I compared the LAB values in whites that I thought were comparable, I have never done a formal calibration - yet.

My humble advice is to go with Bay Photo.