Opinion and Special Articles: Amateur fundus photography with various new devices

Smartphone Fundus Photography

Smartphone fundus photography is a simple technique to obtain ocular fundus pictures using a smartphone camera and a conventional handheld indirect ophthalmoscopy lens. This technique is indispensable when picture documentation of optic nerve, retina, and retinal vessels is necessary but a fundus camera is not available. The main advantage of this technique is the widespread availability of sma...

Fundus photography and fluorescein angiography.

Fundus and Optic Disc Photography

l'rircuiar polarizers have been used v for difrerent ophthalmic applications, such as ophthalmoscopy,' lens photography,' and corneai endothelial microscopy.3 To the best of our knowledge, circular polarizers have not been applied to fundus photography. A linear polarizer polarizes light in a plane. In fundus photography, it has been used to show the birefringence of the nerve fiber layero and ...

Professional portrait studio for amateur digital photography

We describe how to build a professional portable portrait studio that can be used with any consumer camera. The studio allows effortless off-line chroma-key insertion of backgrounds. Digital consumer cameras are designed for delivering acceptable images in typical outdoor or small room situations. The cameras fail when tungsten filament lamps are used. The built-in flash tube is too weak to fil...

Stereo Fundus Photography: Principles and Technique

Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from a chapter in the forthcoming book by Patrick J. Same, M.Ed., CRA, FOPS, and Marshall E. Tyler, CRA, FOPS, Ophthalmic Photography, A Textbook of Retinal Photography, Angiography, and Electronic Imaging, Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997 (available October 1996). This up-to-date comprehensive manual covers the classic topics of fundus photographic...