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I think those who constantly thrash FireFly must be challenged for unfair comparison. I think they do not fairly compare apples to apples.

Many FireFly deprecators believe that good rendering is heavy raytrace and GI of architecture, cars, planets and environments, creatures, machines and landscapes. They are solid in their conviction that if a render engine does not perform these well, it sucks ipso facto. They are blinded by photo realism as if it is the be all and end all of render style.

What if these critics were to yeild to what Poser does well, the simple portrait or body study of a human model with a non-complex background? I think you begin to level the playing field.

I went to the Maxon gallery. I found very few such intimate renders. Here are the only ones, after viewing 160 or so total images in 23 gallery pages
http://www.maxon.net/pages/gallery/pix/waiting_in_the_fog.jpg
http://www.maxon.net/pages/gallery/pix/gallery9/blasi_puyi.jpg

plus a few of the 'gentler' room illuminations such as
http://www.maxon.net/pages/gallery/pix/gallery13/mueri_zivilisation.jpg
http://www.maxon.net/pages/gallery/pix/19/serteco_country.jpg

I did not travel over to CGSociety to look for Cinema4D renders there.

Now I have no idea how much postwork went into those four renders, nor what the render time was. I submit to you that Poser7, with FireFly, can go head to head in that kind of shot with no raytrace or GI engaged. I'd call it 'evocative realism' as opposed to photorealism. 

Anyone care to engage in a challenge in work such as my image in this post?

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