The Last Sheet of Film

[CP Goerz]

A small thought passed my mind the other day after all the unwelcome news stories about Ilford...What would your last picture be when taken with the very last sheet of film on the planet?

CP Goerz

[Richard Martel]

The box it came in....R

[David A. Goldfarb]

You know, I've been thinking about this since I've had one last roll of Kodachrome 25 sitting in the freezer for a while--not large format of course, but it's to the point of the question. I've loaded it into my Voigtlander Vitessa-L and decided to use it for one last season of fall colors and maybe a few portraits, and I've promised myself to shoot every frame as if it were 11x14" transparency--heavier tripod than I would typically use for a 35mm rangefinder, cable release, careful metering, filtration for color balance, and no bracketing.

My last sheet of LF film? Unless we run out of silver nitrate, I'll be making my own plates if that happens.

[Francesco]

Yup finally, a self portrait.

Francesco (www.cicoli.com)

[Terence McDonagh]

I see it going something like this:

Beautiful [insert super-models' or former Russian tennis-player's name here] nude lying on perfect background.

Arrange lighting.

Meter one more time.

Check focus on ground glass one last time.

Step back from dark cloth.

Take in scene.

Pull dark slide.

Fire shutter.

Realize I never closed shutter after viewing ground glass and before pulling darkslide.

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

I would take a picture of me closing the door to my DR , where you could barely make the siluette of the enlarger.....

[Deniz]

I wont use it.. i'll keep it and sell it on e-bay for a million bucks to Jorge..

[Jorge Gasteazoro]

Got the wrong Jorge bubba, I would be making glass plates by then... :-)

[Jim Rice]

Jorge and bubba in the same sentence.....life is good.

[Wayne Firth]

It will just be the last sheet of film. It will not be the last photograph ever. Photography will continue. The world will not stop when the last sheet of film is exposed.