Well, there's only ever going to be a limited extent anything like this will work out the box, I guess.

Any modern camera will work out of the box. But it generally still takes some knowledge and skill and manual adjustment to take a good photograph.

That's my philosophy on it at least...

However, that said... clearly if most textures ship with diffuse set to 1.0, then it would possibly make more sense for IDL Intensity to be set to 0.85... or indeed, as is now being suggested could be the case, 0.15 or less... out of the box? ;-)

We'll see... perhaps next version it will.

Or perhaps we'll see some more IDL lighting calibration type scripts come out... and maybe one of them will ship with Poser itself.

For changing all the diffuse values to 0.85, or whatever, in your materials, you can use Snarlygribbly's SceneFixer script...

Available here: http://www.snarlygribbly.org/3d/forum/