Patent ID: 7429107

Claim:
An ophthalmic photography apparatus that has at least an infrared light-excited fluorescence photography mode and is capable of infrared light-excited fluorescence photography of an eye fundus, the ophthalmic photography apparatus comprising: an index light source that forms a focus or alignment index projected onto the eye during infrared light-excited fluorescence photography; an imaging device that captures an infrared light-excited fluorescence image of the eye fundus; a recorder that records the captured infrared light-excited fluorescence images of the eye fundus as dynamic images; and control means for controlling the index light source during infrared light-excited fluorescence photography to provide different quantities of light for when infrared light-excited fluorescence images are being recorded and not recorded; wherein during recording the control means changes the quantity of light of the index light source with the passage of time after the elapse of a prescribed time from a commencement of infrared light-excited fluorescence photography.