I got Poser 9 as did not have quite enough for Poser Pro 2012 before the pre order special ran out. And well I will get PP2012 at a later date but for the moment Poser 9 is great out of the box unlike Poser 8 which had so many glaring bugs in it at release.

 Main thing is what you can afford at the time but if saving up wait and go PP2012 with so many features including HDRI all a case of up to you really. 

You know you enjoy 3D Art when you realize that your life is a piece of 3D Art. :)

AMD 7900X3D, 64 GB Corsair Vengeance DDR5 Ram, Asus Prime X670-P Wifi MB, PNY RTX 4070Ti Super 16GB, 14TB SSD's & HDD, Windows 11, Poser 9 / Pro 2012 / Pro 2014, Daz Studio 4.22.