Ophathalmoscopic camera having a focus detecting system

An ophthalmoscopic camera comprising a photographing optical system including objective lens means adapted to be positioned opposite to a patient's eye with a working distance and an image plane on which an image of fundus of the patient's eye is formed, an illuminating optical system for projecting a beam of illuminating light to the patient's eye, a focus detecting optical system including mark projecting means having a mark plate formed with at least one mark and located conjugate with said image plane of the photographing optical system with respect to said objective lens means and means for optically projecting said mark through pupil of the patient's eye to the fundus of the eye, said mark projecting means including means for varying a position of at least one mark-projecting beam of light with respect to the axis of the objective lens where the beam passes the objective lens, and with respect to the pupil of the patient's eye.