Carrara is $399, you can get the version 1.1 for free on the cover CD of this or last months issue of Digit. I got my copy from the Sep issue of the UK MacUser. I haven't tinkered much with it, but I keep hearing good things about it and it has an attractive price. You can download a demo of it at www.eovia.com. Yes, you can import geometry from Cinema in Poser and render it there. I am currently busy adding bones in Poser to a character I modeled in Cinema years aog.