Counterpoint: Buy cheap, buy twice. Personally, I think it's better to buy the name brand that you can then sell on for a reasonable price if it's not to your l

Counterpoint: Buy cheap, buy twice. Personally, I think it's better to buy the name brand that you can then sell on for a reasonable price if it's not to your liking rather than buying the knockoff, not getting a proper experience to tell if you actually like the thing or not and then not being able to resell it afterwards. Obviously this is all dependent on your finances. Cheap is better than nothing if you want to try something out and you can't afford the name brand, and it's always better to start with smaller goals and work your way up to bigger ones e.g if you want to make a film, its better to make a low quality film on an iPhone than to wait around for years and do nothing because you're saving up for a cinema camera and lenses or whatever.