Will it be cheaper to buy a camera abroad than at home?

As far as cameras are concerned, they are not necessarily cheap. Since you want to buy it abroad, you should buy it purely from the perspective of cost performance, not to mention domestic licensed products (if compared with domestic licensed products, foreign countries will definitely be cheaper). Mainly depends on whether the cameras produced in China are purchased in the producing country. 90% of the basic cameras are Japanese brands, specifically.

Low-end cameras (such as card machines, small portable cameras, single batteries). If it is exclusively produced in Japan such as Panasonic, Olympus and Fuji, it will be cheaper. Probably 20-30% cheaper than domestic ones at most.

SLR cameras are still cheaper than domestic parallel imports (including Hong Kong banks), or individual ones are less than 5% cheaper (not worth buying).

High-end camera equipment (including lenses), such as Leica and Zeiss. Or domestic parallel imports (including Hong Kong banks) are cheap.

Used camera equipment. Old foreign equipment is cheap, and new domestic equipment is cheap.

Generally speaking, because domestic channels are very common now, profits have been compressed very low. Only less popular equipment can be cheap abroad (because domestic businesses don't like it and don't buy it from channels).