Patent ID: 7510282

Claim:
An ophthalmic photographing apparatus comprising; an interference optical system including: a first light source which emits low coherent light; and a first scanning device which one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally scans an examinee's eye with the light emitted from the first light source, which is defined as first photographing light, and arranged to obtain a tomographic image of the eye by photo-receiving interference light which is obtained by synthesizing the first photographing light reflected from the eye, and reference light which is generated from the light emitted from the first light source and has variable optical path length; a confocal optical system including: a second light source; and a second scanning device which two-dimensionally scans the eye with light emitted from the second light source, which is defined as second photographing light, and arranged to obtain a front image of the eye by photo-receiving the second photographing light reflected from the eye; a changeover device which substantially makes a changeover of the light which is irradiated onto the eye alternately between the first photographing light which is irradiated onto the eye via the interference optical system and the second photographing light which is irradiated onto the eye via the confocal optical system; a display device; and a display control unit arranged to display the tomographic image obtained via the interference optical system and the front image obtained via the confocal optical system side by side as moving images on the display device.