Abstract: An apparatus for producing images of an object and, in particular, for observing the rear portions of the eye by an illumination device, the light of which is focused on the object to be imaged and which preferably is provided with at least one laser. A scanning device, which produces a scanning motion of the light from the illumination device on the object to be imaged. A detector device has at least one detector which receives the light reflected from the object to be imaged an assessement and synchronization unit produces the image from the time-sequential output signal from the detector device.It is possible to gain essential ground-laying information about the object to be imaged, e.g. the fundus of the eye, by special types of illumination and/or the analysis of the scattered back light according to the most varied criteria.