Too much agonizing over little things

My first slr was bought in the late 60's and was a Pentax H1A and I think a 50mm f1.4 lens.  Some of the images of my girls were really very good, sharp with the background smooth.  The manual focus was so easy with large, bright viewfinders and when in focus the subject just popped into clear focus.  Actually in a lot of ways such as the viewfinder, it was much better than our dslr viewfinders which are really hard to focus manually because of the lack of a good grid.

Auto focus on all the new Nikons is complex with many different settings and auto focus does not work on certain situations.  I do think I get too wrapped up in the many different settings for everything on a dslr and loss site of what is really important which is the lighting and proper compostion of an image.

Larry