In article <4blpgj$ab@agate.berkeley.edu>, kngharv@uclink.berkeley.edu says...
>I am looking for a AF, FIXED-APATURE, Nikkor zoom lens of range
>about 70-200. 80-200/f2.8 is out of my price range. However, I did >heard rumor of these following lens:
>1) AF 70-210/f4 I heard it was basically the precursor of the modern >70-210/f4-5.6. Does this lens exists? what is the price range for >this piece?
---It exists, for about $200-250 used, and has the same optics as the
---excellent 70-210 E series lens, better than the 70-210 f4-5.6 AF.
>2) AF 80-200/f4 Though I've seen the manual version of it, I wasn't >sure if AF counterpart exists or not.
---No, it doesn't, and its performance is similar to the 70-210 E.
>3) 70-150 E this is an "E" series lens. I have no clue if its an AF
>or not, nor what is it max. apature.
---MF only, f3.5, superb performance.
---You did not mention the MF 50-135mm f3.5, also excellent
>Any confirmation of these lens' existance would be appreciated. More >over, any comments on their relative quality, etc are welcome as well.
---Iassume from your question that you missed "SUBJECTIVE Lens
---Evaluations (Mostly Nikkors)", which, in version 5, lists ALL
---Nikkors ever made for SLR's (many of which are evaluated).
---It is at the following sites:

Sites where D. Ruether's "SUBJECTIVE Lens Evaluations (Mostly Nikkors)"
can be found:
-Jan-jaap Aue: (ver. 4)
http://www.phys.rug.nl/mk/people/aue/nikon/david.html
-Bo-Ming Tong: (go to end of long article) (ver. 5)
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bmtong/photo/nikon.faq
-Quang-Tuan Luong: (ver. 5)
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~qtluong/photography/35mm/nikon-neuman
-Niklas Nikitin: (table format) (ver. 4)
http://www.cs.hks.se/~nicke/private/photo/david.html

---Hope this helps.