Your assumption is wrong, it's cold war terminology.
First World Western European/North American( US Canada )/Asian (Japan
Korea Taiwan) block allied against...
Second World (Industrialized Communist Countries) Soviet Union,
Peoples Republic of China, Most Eastern
European Countries, Cuba.
Which leaves the third world, Mostly unindustrialized countries who
either didn't or pretended not to
take sides.
This classification system stopped being useful almost immediately,
and was misused from the start. (It's always fun to realize that Sweden
under this system is a Third World Power, not what one would usually think).
Third party lenses however are a different story.
First party is the camera maker, so a lens from that maker for their system
would be a first party lens.
Second party would be a lens manufacture contracted to build a lens by the
First party. So a
re-badged lens would be a second party lens, (a term not used).
Third party lenses are made for a camera by another manufacturer. A Sigma
lens in Pentax mount is a
third party lens.
At 10:10 PM 7/1/2001 +0100, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've always assumed that Europe is the 1st world, the Americas the 2nd
>and Africa and Asia the 3rd. Seems a bit unfair really since Africa's
>been here longer than everywhere else and Europe is a small peninsula
>on one of the extreme ends of Asia.
>
>Oceania doesn't count.
>
>:o)
>
>As for lenses, the party of the first part is the photographer. The
>party of the 2nd part is the camera maker and the party of the 3rd
>part is a lens maker who is neither of the parties of the first or 2nd
>part.
>
>---
>
> Bob
>
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Sunday, July 01, 2001, 9:28:15 PM, you wrote:
>
> > What, exactly, is a second party lens? Is that like a second world country?
> > What the heck is a second world country?
>
> > Regards,
> > Bob...
>
>
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