DAZ|Studio is what got me into 3D - so I'm a new user. Be that as it may, I've tried out Poser, and have my reservations about it. The camera controls aren't as easy - you can't move the camera, say in or out, by scrolling the mouse wheel; the libraries tend to be SLOW loading and it really takes hours to plow through them to find what you want. As FranR said, with a couple of plugins added, DAZ|Studio is da bomb!  It may lack the sophistication of Poser in materials/texture handling, but I'm confident it will get there eventually and in a more user-friendly fashion!!