James Rice discovered that Chicago Ave is a street that has many shades and contrasting images. It's a street in transition from traditional neighborhoods to the gloss of new gentrification. What often remains in the shadows is stubborn examples of poverty that never seem to go away.
The Light Lens Lab 35/1.4 Double Stroke Aspheric Replica takes me back three decades to the time when I decided to buy the original Leica Summilux-M 1.4/35mm Aspherical (11873) which was introduced in 1989. It is a lens I have been eagerly awaiting ever since I set hands on the LLL f/1.2 Noctilux clone…