Retinal Photography

If I’m not out shooting images for people. I spend my days as an Ophthalmic Photographer in the Eye Department at Dunedin’s Public Hospital.

This is a photograph of my retina, Taken with a Canon digital Fundus Camera. (Just one of the many cameras I use). A fundus camera or retinal camera is a specialized low power microscope with an attached digital camera designed to photograph the back interior surface of the eye, including the retina, optic disc, macula (i.e. the fundus).

I ask patients to imagine their eye as a movie projector. The lens at the front like a camera and then a projector screen at the back. This screen at the back is your retina, where everything you see is played out for your brain to see. It’s like a CCD or CMOS sensor in a digital camera.