This reminds me of something my grandfather would say when he was in his mid-seventies (I am now 80), when seeing an atractive young woman walking on the other side of the street. He would shake his head and say to me, "I wish I were seventy again!"
Seeing them on the other side of the street speaks volumes! I jest; seeing them
clearly is often the problem. Post August's twin cataract expulsions, I can see them and everything else on the other side of the street very clearly, but as with those who creep up from behind, processing intent takes a little longer. Even my own, which is pretty dormant.
Can't remember if I mentioned it already, but post cataracts, using the screens on both cameras (once the diopters re-set properly to suit the new situation) has become far better, especially so with the D700 which has a head start due to its natively larger image in the viewfinder. I've had a Nikon magnifier on each for quite some time, and that helped a lot at once. However, I also tried looking through the finder of the D700 with the 24mm in place, and was amazed at how easily I could get things looking really crisp even with that difficult lens. Perhaps I have been chastising digital screens a little too harshly, with much of the problem residing within my own eyes.
Win some, lose some...