Your last hurrah for film.

You mean to tell me there is no more film for my cameras.
It will be decades before I start thinking about last hurrahs for film.
I'm about 50 years old, I expect film will out last me.

I didn't say that! The question is about the last roll YOU will ever use.

If you think film will be around for a long time, you don't plan to stop shooting, and don't have a terminal illness, it is pretty much impossible to know which roll of film will be your last.

I haven't shot film in 6 months but I'll some this spring. I'm sure I'll shoot some in the summer too. When I use all the film in my freezer I'll just buy more. No need for some special send off.

I'll let you know when I load the last roll because I can't think that far into the future.
I did shoot a last roll of Kodachrome two weeks before the last processing day but I didn't know what to shoot (winter) and pretty much wasted a perfectly good roll of film. I got it processed anyway.
I would plan better next time if I knew I was shooting my last roll.

I bet this will be a long thread.

If you mean the last roll I ever shoot, how on Earth am I supposed to know? That will be 30-40 years from now when it is my last dance with photography period. But if you mean what was the last thing I did on film, it was a few days ago towards this essay called "Mirror Us" that I started in San Fran, all medium format, all film, no digital allowed. It is mostly in black or white, but the color portion is all double and triple exposures all strategically planned out.
Here is a double...

Another one, a triple exposure shot on Ektar 100, an incredible film in medium format. Have a good thread guys, I need to get my butt up and build a drop table for my enlarger..:-)

My last rolls of Kodachrome went to shoot a 30 year reunion. If the rest of film and processing were to go the same way, I would use the rest of my stash for something significant. If, on the other hand, I were simply using up the last of my frozen stock and giving up film for digital I would either shoot whatever I usually shoot, or I would sell or give the film away.

However, I'm with Tim. I am 54, and believe film will outlive me. Which is a good thing; I can't swing a dead cat in my house without knocking over a working film camera. Which, I suppose, is why I always have them cremated.
The dead cats, I mean.

A set of portraits of the ones you love - not worth wasting your last film on something else. Just take the portrait as if it were going to be the last time your saw them.

I think I will have time to think about my hast (film) hurrah - I have about 500 rolls to go through and that should last me quite some time. Im only 43 so Im hoping that I wont have to worry about it for at least a decade!

Good question tho Alan, I honestly couldnt come up with anything other than maybe photographing family members with my last roll/sheet of film. I think Stephen hit on the head as i agree with his comment which I read after I typed what i typed.