The entire setup for mounting my fairly expensive A6000 Sony camera was a little under 75 bucks except for the hdmi to usb dongle that shot up hundreds of dollars from its fairly expensive base. I was totally on the fence for months about buying, thinking maybe I could get into twitch or something to justify it since the price wasn't just totally out of reach. It seemed like newer models had work arounds and I was just going to have to bite the bullet for being an early mirrorless adapter.

Then those dongles came out. Work perfectly for every use case a regular consumer would need one for.