Patent ID: 7344248

Claim:
An ophthalmoscope for examining the fundus of a patient's eye, having at least one illumination means, which generates at least one illumination beam, and one imaging optic assignable to said illumination means, said imaging optic imaging said illumination beam onto said fundus of a patient's eye via an intermediate focal plane, at least one observation means and an imaging optic assignable to said observation means, said imaging optic imaging an observation beam generated by reflection of said illumination beam at said fundus via said intermediate plane in said observation means, and a diaphragm slit arrangement placed in said illumination beam and said observation beam, said diaphragm slit arrangement having at least one diaphragm slit, respectively, placeable in said illumination beam path and said observation beam path, said diaphragm slits being mounted in a synchronously oscillating manner relative to said illumination beam and said observation beam, wherein said intermediate focal plane is imageable to infinity via at least one optical unit and said intermediate focal plane imaged to infinity is imageable in an imaging plane of said observation beam in which said observation means is provided and said optical unit is provided in the beam path of said observation beam downstream of said intermediate focal plane and is passed through by said illumination beam and said observation beam.