An imaging unit detachable from an optical unit of an ophthalmologic imaging apparatus having a light source, an illumination optical system that directs light from the light source to a subjects fundus, and an imaging optical system that directs reflected light from the subjects fundus to an image sensing surface of an imaging device includes an imaging device that images a fundus image formed on an image sensing surface with the reflected light, and a display unit configured to display an image. The imaging unit has a live view function to perform continuous display on the display unit, of fundus images imaged by the imaging device, and switches a display of an image on the display unit by the live view function between a normal display and a display in which the normal display is vertically and horizontally inverted, in accordance with information regarding the imaging optical system.
