Patent ID: 7354154

Claim:
An ophthalmic image taking apparatus comprising: an image sensing element for taking a fundus image of an eye to be examined and making an image data; a switch for changing over an image taking mode between a screening mode for taking images in a mass survey and a detailed diagnostic mode for examining a taken image more detailedly than a case of observing the images taken in the screening mode; an image taking optical system capable of varying an imaging magnification for the fundus image imaged on the image sensing element; an illumination unit for illuminating a fundus of eye to be examined; a control unit for controlling the image taking optical system so as to make the imaging magnification of the fundus image lower than that in the case of the detailed diagnostic mode and controlling a light intensity of illumination light of the illumination unit lower than that in the case of the detailed diagnostic mode, when the switch designates the screening mode; and an image control unit for outputting an image data obtained by the image sensing element to a monitor when the switch designates the detailed diagnostic mode, and for outputting a specific image data which is obtained by cutting out a region including the fundus image from the image obtained by the image sensing element to the monitor when the switch designates the screening mode.