It's not a question of writing off Poser, it's a question of using the right tools for the job. Poser is great for creating a character, dressing and posing it. It is very poor at building, lighting and arranging large scenes. How can you even begin with cameras that don't work properly and the lack of basic functions like multiple select and duplicate? Well, that's rhetorical, because people do struggle to do this in Poser and even manage to make some nice pictures, but it is SO much easier and quicker to build scenes in another program (I use Bryce). The amount of extra time involved in exporting Poser figures and importing them into Bryce is totally outweighed by all the time you save wrestling with trying to create a large scene in Poser.