An ophthalmic apparatus has an illumination optical system for illuminating a preselected point of a patient's eye with slit-light. Objective lenses are each disposed in an observation optical path for forming an image of the preselected point of the patient's eye. Eyepiece systems are disposed in respective ones of the observation optical paths for observing the image of the preselected point of the patient's eye. An imaging device captures the image of the preselected point of the patient's eye. An optical element guides the image of the preselected point of the patient's eye to the imaging device. The optical element is disposed between the objective lenses at a position that does not lie in any of the observation optical paths.