joe@azurite.demon.co.uk says...

>In article <4eoii1$64g@newsstand.cit.cornell.edu>,
>Bob Neuman writes

>>D. Ruether's "SUBJECTIVE Lens Evaluations (Mostly Nikkors)",
>>which includes a listing of all Nikon SLR lenses ever made (with a
>>subjective evaluation of many of them, a general description of Nikkor
>>lens performance characteristics by lens-type groups, and comments on
>>particular lenses when the general descriptions plus the subjective
>>evaluation numbers are not sufficient to describe performance),
>>can be found at these sites:
-- Jan-jaap Aue: (nice text format)
http://www.phys.rug.nl/mk/people/aue/nikon/david.html
-- Bo-Ming Tong: (go to end of long article, plain text format)
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo/nikon.faq
-- Quang-Tuan Luong: (plain text format)
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~qtluong/photography/35mm/nikon-neuman -- Niklas Nikitin: (nice table format)
http://www.cs.hks.se/~nicke/private/photo/david.html

>And on the offchance that you can't access these, some kind person >might just email you the file. I say this because I didn't have web >access for a while myself!
>joe b.

Could be! If anyone can't access the sites above, and wants a copy,
e-mail me at - d_ruether@hotmail.com - and I will send you a copy.
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