An apparatus including an illumination unit for illuminating an eye to be inspected with light from an observation light source or light from a photographing light source an photographing unit for guiding reflected light from the eye to an photographing element, to record an image thereof a calculation unit for calculating an appropriate observation or photographing light intensity based on an illumination light intensity of the illumination unit and an image signal of the photographing element an automatic light intensity adjustment unit for causing one of the observation and photographing light sources to emit light at the calculated light intensity and a control unit for controlling the adjustment unit according to a selected one of a mode of acquiring the fundus image and a mode of acquiring the anterior ocular image.
