No ones debating the usefulness of nikon ais, I use them and plenty of threads on that already. Thanks for contributing with the flare characteristics.
Yeah, it is pretty much the worst thing about most still lenses. The flares end up being either tiny little green points of light (Nikon, Canon FD, some Minolta) or purple. The horrible kit lens I got with the 7D actually has really cool big nasty flares, so I keep that bugger around for music video shoots when I've got par cans/nine lights gunning down the barrel.