I’ve been repairing and shooting with digital cameras that have come out since the mid-90s, and over the years I’ve accumulated images from nearly 250 different cameras. Cameras listed are everything from a 1995 Ricoh RDC-1 to a 2025 Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7. The Digicam Archive is an interactive comparison tool that lets you pull up any two of those cameras side by side and see exactly how they rendered the same scene. These shots are all at the highest quality and if the camera has a raw hack, it was used for the image. Each image has been upscaled and colors manipulated to be the best that it can be, so if you are looking for original images this is not where you want to look.

The tool works simply: pick a scene (House or Building), select two cameras from the dropdown, and a crop box appears over the full image that you can drag and resize anywhere you want. Both comparison panels update in real time, showing you a pixel-level look at whatever detail you’ve selected. You can also toggle which camera fills the large main view, or open a full side-by-side fullscreen mode.

Cameras span from 1995 through 2025 and include point-and-shoots, DSLRs, mirrorless cameras, early camera phones, and a few odd cameras from Kodak, Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic, Casio, Ricoh, Leica, Sigma, Minolta, Kyocera, Sanyo, Epson, and more. There’s even a 1996 Canon Sure Shot 60, shot on 35mm film and scanned, sitting right next to a 2025 DJI Osmo Pocket 3.

Pick a year, pick two cameras, and see what the state of digital imaging actually looked like.

[Open the Digicam Archive]

Here’s all the cameras you can choose to compare

1995
Ricoh RDC-1
1996
35mm · Canon Sure Shot 60 · Canon PowerShot 600 · Kodak DC120
1997
Epson PhotoPC 600 · Fujifilm DS-300 · Olympus D-600L
1998
Canon PowerShot A5 · Epson PhotoPC 900 · Epson PhotoPC Pro 70 · Kodak DCS 315
1999
Nikon D1 · Olympus D-2500L · Olympus D-450Z · Sony Mavica FD-91
2000
Canon EOS D30 · Canon PowerShot G1 · Canon PowerShot S20 · Fujifilm FinePix 4900Z · Fujifilm FinePix S1 Pro · HP Photosmart 912 · Kodak DC4800 · Nikon Coolpix 990 · Olympus E-10
2001
Canon EOS-1D · Canon PowerShot G2 · Fujifilm FinePix 6900Z · Kyocera Finecam S3 · Leica Digilux 1 · Nikon Coolpix 5000 · Nikon Coolpix 775 · Nikon D1X · Olympus Camedia D-100 · Olympus E-20 · Sony DSC-F707 · Sony DSC-S85
2002
Canon EOS D60 · Canon EOS-1Ds · Canon PowerShot G3 · Casio QV-5700 · Fujifilm FinePix 3800 · Fujifilm FinePix S2 Pro · Minolta DiMAGE S404 · Nikon Coolpix 4300 · Nikon D100 · Olympus Camedia C-50 · Panasonic Lumix FZ1 · Sharp VE-CG30U · Sigma SD9
2003
Canon PowerShot G5 · Fujifilm FinePix F700 · Fujifilm FinePix S7000 · Leica Digilux 2 · Minolta DiMAGE F300 · Olympus C-5060 Wide Zoom · Olympus C-740 …