>>3223332some AF-D lenses are great and some are shit, primes are generally good and so are 2.8 zooms, but almost without exception non constant aperture zooms are shit.
also AF-D often don't have coated read elements which can cause ghosting on digital cameras, though this does not affect film at all.
also with the new interest in film, the lenses are backward compatible with manual film cameras like the FE, and FM