The French Ophthalmology Society (SFO) elected as its annual reporter E. Hartmann on "Radiography in ophthalmology. A clinical atlas" (1936), then H. Fischgold et coll. (1966) for "Neuroradiological exploration in ophthalmology" and, for 1996, the author of this article, for "Imaging in ophthalmology," the 3rd phase in this 30 year cycle, due to chance and the need for the development of X-rays...