Category: Anterior Photography

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Portable slit lamps have come a long way in the last few years. They are not manufactured anymore from low-quality plastic and lens.

Now you will find a refined, durable, and high-quality lens in their place with options of LED illumination or even full-color screens.

Illumination control and slit width are standard, and they weigh almost nothing. Perfect for applications in remote areas or bed patients and children.

Here we examine 3 options you should consider for your next hand-held slit lamp.

“The D-EYE Retinal Imaging System efficiently captures quality photos of the posterior pole in situations where standard fundus photography was impractical” – Doctor Pihlblad

D-EYE Retinal Screening SystemPresented by Ross Eye Institute at the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Conference (AAPOS) 

PADOVA, Italy and PASADENA, Calif. – May 10, 2016– Matthew S. Pihlblad, MD and Steven G. Stockslager, MD, physicians from the Ross Eye Institute, Department of Ophthalmology, The State University of New York at Buffalo incorporated the D-EYE Smartphone Retinal Imaging System into a recent study to determine if the system was a beneficial alternative for fundus imaging in the pediatric population. The results of the study were presented to the American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology (AAPOS) at the organization’s annual conference.

An intelligent way to take excellent slit lamp pictures is with an iPhone slit lamp adapter.

If you are a curious person, then by now, you have been trying to take pictures through your slit lamp with your iPhone, right?

I will detail the advantages of using an iPhone slit lamp adapter as your primary tool for digital photography, the different options you will find in the market, and how to use it to create fabulous pictures.

What did you try to do when you got your first iPhone? For me, it was the camera. The TV ads would not stop promoting the idea that this new iPhone would be the only camera we needed. So I had to test it…and I was not disappointed.

While Apple kept busy launching new versions of the iPhone, 3, 4, 4s, 5, 5s, etc., the camera has always been one of the main focuses of improvement: from the starting 3 megapixels on the first version to today’s 8 megapixels, bigger sensors, improved focus, and faster pictures.

A few years ago, the optometrist took pictures of the anterior segment using a simple “point and shoot” camera and focused through the slit lamp eyepiece.

Today we have a slit lamp camera adapter that will plug in directly over the eyepiece or replace it. These compact cameras will also allow you to take videos useful for fundus photography.

We might think that due to the growing popularity and quality improvements on smartphone cameras, they are the best option for slit lamp examination. Still, most of the time, it will be faster and more convenient to dedicate a compact camera.

I can still remember the first time I used a slit lamp.

After looking at it and thinking, “What a weird shape for a microscope,” I sat on the stool and looked through the eyepieces into a human eye like I’d never looked before.

My first thought was, “Wow!“. That was it. I would never see the eyes in the same way again. I had discovered the beauty and detail of the fantastic EYE.