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What type of product are you trying to render. Do you need realistic caustics?
I keep going back to Carrara, mostly because of the output settings. I can just set the image to render, at whatever dimensions and dpi that I want. this is very handy for print work, because i can do my framing and cropping before I ever render it out. As opposed to other 3D packages that force you render in preset sizes(2k, 4k, NTSC, A5 etc) and then crop down to the size you need. that eats up lots of time rendering things that will only be cropped out of the final.
as for C4d, it is good, but without the GI, AO you are better off with Carrara.
Can't say much about Blender, as I have never used it much, but I am continually impressed with renders, coming from it... seems YAFRAY may be a good choice.
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