Is this true about Canon?

On Jan 31, 11:59 pm, M-M wrote:
Someone else wrote the following and I'm wondering if it is true:

"Canon for some time has been the faster better sports equipment. Not
all just in auto focus but also frames per second and write speed to the
buffer is also faster. Read the features and compare. There are also
many more lenses in the Canon system. Nikon only does as well as it
does because so many photographers had a large number of Nikon lenses as
the photo world began to change. Canon now has over 80% on the
professional market because of chip size and all the great features. If
you ever use a Canon Camera for just a short while you will see what I
am talking about and you would never look back. Nothing wrong with
Nikon of Fuji they are just that other 20% for the most part, and that
does not make them bad. All of the cameras today make great photographs
as long as you set them the right way. As for Canons auto focus system
everything else is second."

"Read about their ring ultrasonic motor for rapid autofocus. Hold a
Nikon in your hands and then a Canon--and compare the rapidity of
autofocus with a long lens (a Canon white lens)--even to Nikon's own
version of the ring ultrasonic motor."
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m-m

As everyone has said no camera does everything the best, there are
always compromises. Right now Nikon's metering, and flash systems are
supposedly better than Canons. Argueably Canon's long lenses focus
faster.
What Canon does is treat pros better. If you are on their "Pro list"
you can get free loaners of those white lenses to cover events. Canon
cover a lot of events this way, shot a "First Night" for a town paper,
at most of the events a photographer working for a national news
agency was there. Said his own cameras stay home, He 2 D1mII bodies
witha 24-70 and a 70-200 IS lenses. We shot a dance troup, he showed
me his images, I had Tri-X and knew everything I shot was going to be
very grainy. He said he was just going to pack all the camera and
lenses in a box and ship them FedX back to Canon in the morning. Nikon
has a similar program but make it much more difficult for the
photographers to get equipment and services.

Tom