Patent ID: 7287854

Claim:
An ophthalmic photography apparatus that includes an optical system for forming an image of the fundus of an eye being examined, and image pickup means that has a plurality of pixels in a matrix array disposed at the position where the image of the eye fundus is formed by the optical system, said ophthalmic photography apparatus comprising: a lens movable within the optical system along the optical axis for compensation for shifts in the image-formation position due to differences in diopter of the eye being examined; a stop with two apertures provided at a position substantially conjugate to the anterior ocular segment of the eye being examined; and a deflecting optical element provided near the imaging surface of the image pickup means; wherein the exit pupil position of the optical system is set to be at infinity, and the image pickup means and the deflecting optical element are disposed such that the light that is incident upon one pixel column of the image pickup means via the optical deflecting element is only that light that passed through one of the two apertures of the stop and light from both apertures is incident upon alternate pixel columns of the image pickup means.