I have to agree with what others said about rendering in Carrara vs Poser (any version).  IMHO Carrara beats Poser in every aspect (with the possible exception of rendering dynamic hair).  Typically, lighting imported directly from a Poser scene will look bad in CS. But comparing the difficulty of setting up good lighting in Poser vs CS (not using preset lighting), Poser takes a lot more work than CS to get similar results. 

The first thing I do when I import a scene from Poser is delete all the Poser lights, and set up my own. I typically use HDRI with a couple of bulb lights on either side of the "front" of my scene (turned way down), and possibly a spot light or 2.  Textures usually need some help too. I usually have to reduce the shine value, fix bump map and/or displacement map issues, and tweak the highlights, but the whole process will usually take less than 30 min., and is well worth the time spent.  Unless for some odd reason a project requires the use of Poser for  rendering (which would often happen before Carrara had rendertime displacement), I won't even consider rendering in Poser anymore.

 

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