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Not really, I was trained on the MTF bench yesterday and that was a lens we had lying around that is has been essentially locked in a metal block for life so it may easily be coupled to the MTF bench. 

 

http://i.imgur.com/ni1Sm4B.jpg

 

this is no standard F mount =)

 

(as far as evaluating their specs goes - I meant MTF claims.  The 55mm AF-D version may be the same optics - nikon didn't update several lenses when they went AF-D)

The AF 55mm f2.8 indeed has the same optical formula as the 55mm f2.8 Ai/Ai-S. The main difference is in the duo-cam barrel design, allowing the AF version to go upto 1:1, where the MF versions only reached 1:2 (and 1:1 with the PK-3 extension tube).