Patent ID: 8113656

Claim:
An ophthalmic photography apparatus comprising: an imaging device that captures a monocular image of a fundus of an eye under examination via a photographic stop for monocular photography during operation in a monocular photographic mode and that captures stereographically viewed images of the fundus with a parallax via photographic stops that are decentered relative to a photographic optical axis for stereographic photography during operation in a stereographic photography mode; an operation unit that switches between operation in the monocular photographic mode and operation in the stereographic photography mode; an illuminating optical system that illuminates the fundus of the eye under examination via an objective lens; a photographic optical system that guides light from the fundus of the eye under examination through the objective lens to the imaging device via the photographic stop during operation in the monocular photographic mode and via the photographic stops during operation in the stereographic photography mode; a first black spot plate disposed in the illuminating optical system and having at least one first black spot that prevents photographic light reflected from the objective lens from passing through the photographic stop during operation in the monocular photography mode; and a second black spot plate disposed in the illuminating system and having at least one second black spot that prevents photographic light reflected from the objective lens from passing through the two photographic stops during operation in the stereographic photography mode.