High ISOs are downright inconvenient with film, because you can't change it. I find ISO 400 gives intolerable grain, with ISO 100 being nearly unnoticeable. Besides, if you have ISO 400 loaded in and the sun comes out, bad things start happening on the f16 1/1000th of a second front. Give me a shallow DoF with nice wide open aperture any day.
I hope you enjoy your A-1, and if you see someone with a digicam do what I do--challenge them to a camera battle. At this point they will say something like: well MY camera has variable ISO, 3fps, a 5x optical zoom and I can take all the pictures I want!
At this point you grasp your A-1 firmly and bring it down rapidly on their fancy 21st century plastic and silicon, and then depart with a smug smile ;-) This trick works particularly well with my Leica R3, which weighs in at a back-breaking 960g!
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