Provided is an image pickup apparatus including a light beam projecting unit projecting a light beam onto an eye to be inspected, an image signal acquiring unit acquiring an image signal based on the light beam reflected by the eye, a scanning unit included in the light beam projecting unit and scanning the eye with the light beam, an image generating unit generating an image based on the acquired image signal, a position information generating unit arranged outside an optical path of projecting the light beam onto the eye by the light beam projecting unit, a control unit causing the scanning unit to scan the position information generating unit with the light beam, and a correcting unit correcting timing of acquiring the image signal by the image signal acquiring unit based on position information acquired from the light beam with which the position information generating unit is scanned.
