A fundus photographing apparatus for photographing a fundus of an examinees eye includes: a fundus photographing optical system for obtaining a fundus image, including: an optical scanner that scans the fundus with measurement light including at least part of light emitted from a light source and a light detector that receives light including reflected light from the fundus a length information obtaining unit for obtaining length information on an axial direction of the eye and a controller that adjusts driving information of the fundus photographing optical system in relation to a photographing range based on the length information obtained by the length information obtaining unit and controls the fundus photographing optical system based on the adjusted driving information to obtain a fundus image corresponding to a photographing range.
