Here's a little something I found today while clearing out some old bookmarks - an in depth look at a few of the usual (and maybe not so usual) shotgun, hyper, super and cardioid suspects. Now, I did not write this and to be perfectly honest I don't know if I would agree with some of the stuff that this guys says (admittedly, he is a video guy apparently) but I thought it did make interesting reading and there are some decent samples recordings with each mic that he reviews.
Apologies if this has been posted before, I did do a search (yes, on google) with no results, so here goes..
http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/right_mic_brockett.html
Enjoy
- Chak