Retinal Photography Without Mydriatics

Abstract

Two main reasons may be given to explain why retinal photography is not used more frequently by opto­metrists: the high cost of the specialized cameras required and the "need" for mydriasis. It is of course true that fundus cameras, like all other complex optical instruments, are expensive. It will however be shown in this paper that very acceptable photographs of the retina may often be obtained easily, even by inexperienced optometry students, without any drug-induced mydriasis, after only a few minutes of instruc­tion and experience.