I just got my copy of TransPoser and I think I am going to be very happy with it once I learn how to set up the lights and rendering options in Carrara.

If you don't know TransPoser is a plugin for Carrara 3 that lets you inport Poser pz3 file to render in Carrara.

The attached picture is a piece of a V3 model rendered in Carrara using only the defalt light and done at a setting of 300dpi. It is much faster then Poser since Carrara is multi processor aware and I am using a dual 800mhz G4 Mac.