Photography Of The Peripheral Retina.

Photographing an ocular condition or disease process has long been recognized as a useful way to document the condition for comparison at a later date. At the Ferris clinic photography also plays an important role in teaching all aspects of clinical optometry, but is perhaps most important in the teaching of pathology. Each year over a thousand photographs are taken of various disorders. Many of these photographs are of the posterior fundus and are taken by the Cannon Non-Mydriatic Camera. While this instrument is capable of taking excellent photographs of the posterior fundus, it is incapable of photographing the fundus any further anterior than the equator. The purpose of this project, therefore, is to develop a system by which the peripheral retina can be photographed.