Abstract: A retinal camera wherein an auxiliary lens is provided so as to be free to be let into and out of a light path between the position of an image of a retina formed by an objective and a relay lens so that the front eye part of an eye to be examined can be illuminated brightly and uniformly and an image of the front eye part of a high resolution can be obtained at a high magnification. The auxiliary lens has a negative or positive refracting power. The auxiliary lens having a negative refracting power is let into and out of the light path together with an image rotator so that the image of the front eye part can be observed as an erected image.

Abstract: An optical system for retinal cameras wherein the distance between an eye to be inspected and an inspector is made short to improve the operatability and to make it easy to handle the eye to be inspected.

Abstract: A compactly designable optical system for ophthalmological instruments comprising an illumination system so adapted as to illuminate a fundus with rays having passed through a ring slit and been focused on the cornea of an eyeball to be examined, and an observation/photographing system so adapted as to permit observing and photographing an image of said eyeball with a small reflector mirror arranged in said illumination system so as to be inclined with regard to the optical axis thereof and a relay lens for focusing the rays which are reflected by the fundus, passing through said objective lens and reflected by said small reflector mirror.