Burnett was shooting with something a little different – a ‘toy camera’ with a plastic lens invented in the 1960s so that cash-strapped Chinese workers could take pictures.

Try putting a crappy, plastic lens onto your high-end digital camera. We call these artistically ironic adapters “toy lenses,” and the hard-to-control analog results are often quite startling ...

What's Worth Noting About the Goopow Kids Camera Toy With a 2.62-inch screen and meager pixels, it's not going to capture anything close to the quality of an iPhone photo.

And that’s the real issue: the Nest Cam IQ is basically an expensive toy. Even with its people-tracking intelligence and high-resolution image quality, I’m not convinced it’s worth the price.