Patent ID: 7147328

Claim:
An ophthalmologic photographing apparatus comprising: an apparatus main body having a light source, an illumination system for irradiating an eye to be examined with illumination light and photographing light from the light source, and an observation system for observing an image of the eye to be examined which is illuminated by the illumination system; a photographing device having a color image pickup device, for receiving a light flux from the eye to be examined from an optical path of the observation system by the color image pickup device, photographing the image of the eye to be examined and recording the image; a mode switch for designating a cataract mode to the eye to be examined; an opacity switch for designating a degree of opacity of a cataract of the eye to be examined; and a gain control section for sending a blue gain control signal to a gain controller according to the degree of opacity based on a designation setting of the opacity switch.