I'm sorry, JenX, but so far NONE of the renders I've seen using Poser 8's new lights look even remotely PHOTOREALISTIC to me.
And neither did any of the IBL and ambient occlusion renders that were all the rage when Poser 6 appeared.
Or any of the gazillion node skin shaders that were a "must have" not so long ago.

But REALISM in Poserdome is such a rare animal....

As long as most people (and vendors, and shops) claim that V4 is realistic just because she looks remotely humanoid, trying to discuss realism is really a waste of time.

I already spent thousands of hours resculpting and rerigging meshes because noone else was interrested in creating truly accurate humans for Poser, so I guess I know pretty well what I can blame and what not.

My point (again):

High quality meshes + simple but fast lights are more realistic (and more fun) than the usual poor quality content rendered with highly sophisticated lights.