The best advice I can give is to be sure to get an SLR camera, not something with a built-in lens. For doing poser work you can not have such a thing as too many pixels. Good hi-res poser texture files these days are 9 to 16 megapixels (3000 to 4000 px square). You also need macro capability, and a sharp picture overall. I've tried a lot of "all-in-one" compact digital cameras, and none has ever really impressed me. Small lenses on the compact cameras are compromised in so many ways... high f-stop, severe barrel distortions, overall poor sharpness, to name just a few. I have one all-in-one camera (Nikon 950) and it's great for it's portability and price, but the image quality leaves a lot to be desired. It's not good enough for doing Poser textures for profit. For some reason it captures grey areas as a dithered collection of rainbow colored pixels, rather an grey. It doesn't take very sharp photos either, relatively speaking. A long visit to dpreview.com is certainly in order, no mater what range of cameras you decide on. I'm very happy with the Canon D60, but my choice was made much easier by the fact that I already had a Canon lens collection for my Elan 35mm. I'm sure Nikon's SLR digital offerings are similar, and worth checking out especially if you already have a Nikon 35mm SLR. -Adam