"Also, it shouldn't be that difficult to have a group of people in spacesuits equipped with energy weapons fighting off that cyborg dinosaur stand still just for a moment so I can ge the focus right on the camera."

Point taken but as I said earlier in the thread, photorealism or photographic simulation has very valid purposes.
such a visualization of a 90 million dollar
office complex that has yet to be built
or when need you an older gentleman like morgan freeman's head tracked onto a stunt players body like the Ian McDiarmid's was in revenge of the sith
or an amazing film like Benjamin Button
or  even( finally!!) a proper big screen realization of a comic book character like the "Hulk"

But I can tell you as a person who has
in his tool set:
Maxwell Render from Nextlimit
Vray for C4D by Chaos group
Kray For Lightwave
as well as the native renderers for both Lightwave and C4D,

that Photorealism for its own sake gets very boring very quickly IMHO,
unless you have an artistic reason to emulate actual photography,

And no offense to poser merchants
as they produce content made for posers firefly
and standard poser lighting
but truth of the matter is ,that by my estimate,
90% of the content released for poser today
doe NOT even come close to looking  "photorealistic" when placed in the unforgiving clarity of a modern GI engine Like Vray or maxwell...especially skin textures.
 

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