Jen X
"In the end, is the work any less beautiful because it wasn't rendered in Poser?"

No its far more rich and beautiful and realistic, and beyond what Poser can do. Some people do not even put an explanation as to how the image was created and just post it in the Poser gallery, but I can tell it was rendered in Vray or Maxwell. Im about to upgrade to Poser 8 and want to know its full capablility as far as natural lighting with IDL and its effect on textures ,aside from Bagginsbill,  I keep seeing images that looks no different from Poser 5's capability and am not sure if it would be worth the $140.00 bucks.

Personnally Im working on exporting from D/S into Blender and rendering with Lux, but I wouldn't Post a final image in the daz Studio Gallery..95% of all the work will be done in Blender and Lux GUI for shaders. I wouldnt want to give the impression that 3delight is capable of Non- biased photorealism like Lux.