Patent ID: 7631971

Claim:
An ophthalmic apparatus comprising: a base; a face supporting unit which is fixed to the base for supporting a face of an examinee; a measurement part which includes a measurement optical system for performing one of examination and measurement on an eye of the examinee with the face supported by the face supporting unit and that is movable on the base by operation of a joystick; an observation optical system provided in the measurement part and having an image-pickup element for observing the examinee's eye; a monitor which displays an image of the examinee's eye picked up by the image-pickup element; a frame to one side of which the monitor is fixed; and a holding unit which is mounted on the measurement part and holds the frame to be rotatably movable with respect to the measurement part, wherein the holding unit has a mechanism which holds the frame to be rotatably movable between a first position where the frame is approximately vertical for allowing the monitor to face an opposite direction to the face supporting unit, and a second position where the frame is approximately horizontal for allowing the monitor to face upward, and which holds the frame to be in a stationary state in at least one of the first position and the second position.