An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: a fundus observation optical system including an image pickup element to observe a fundus of an examinee's eye; a target presenting optical system for projecting a fixation target and a target for visual field examination onto the fundus, the target presenting optical system including an LCD display for displaying a predetermined fixation target; a monitor for displaying an image of the fundus picked up by the image pickup element; a designating means for designating an area of the fundus with a visual function other than a macular area from the fundus image displayed on the monitor to make alignment of the fundus image displayed on the monitor with the fixation target displayed on the LCD display; and a controller detecting an approaching state of the fixation target projected on the fundus and the designated fundus area with the visual function based on positional information of the fundus area designated by the designating means on the monitor after movement and positional information of the fixation target displayed on the LCD display from an approaching state of the distinctive point and the fixation target on the fundus, judging based on a detection result whether or not the designated fundus area and the fixation target projected on the fundus are coincident in a predetermined allowable range, and changing the display state of the fixation target being displayed when the fixation target and the designated fundus area are coincident in the predetermined allowable range, characterised in that the controller is further on adapted to extract a distinctive point by image processing from the fundus image displayed on the monitor, to associate a position of the extracted distinctive point and a position of the designated fundus area, and to detect positional relationship between the position of the distinctive point and the position of the projected fixation target to detect the approaching state of the fixation target and the designated fundus area. a fundus observation optical system including an image pickup element to observe a fundus of an examinee's eye; a target presenting optical system for projecting a fixation target and a target for visual field examination onto the fundus, the target presenting optical system including an LCD display for displaying a predetermined fixation target; a monitor for displaying an image of the fundus picked up by the image pickup element; a designating means for designating an area of the fundus with a visual function other than a macular area from the fundus image displayed on the monitor to make alignment of the fundus image displayed on the monitor with the fixation target displayed on the LCD display; and a controller detecting an approaching state of the fixation target projected on the fundus and the designated fundus area with the visual function based on positional information of the fundus area designated by the designating means on the monitor after movement and positional information of the fixation target displayed on the LCD display from an approaching state of the distinctive point and the fixation target on the fundus, judging based on a detection result whether or not the designated fundus area and the fixation target projected on the fundus are coincident in a predetermined allowable range, and changing the display state of the fixation target being displayed when the fixation target and the designated fundus area are coincident in the predetermined allowable range, characterised in that the controller is further on adapted to extract a distinctive point by image processing from the fundus image displayed on the monitor, to associate a position of the extracted distinctive point and a position of the designated fundus area, and to detect positional relationship between the position of the distinctive point and the position of the projected fixation target to detect the approaching state of the fixation target and the designated fundus area.