Provided are an ophthalmologic device and a method of controlling the same capable of accurately and reliably acquiring ocular characteristics of a subject eye. The ophthalmologic device includes: a face supporting unit configured to support a face of an examinee; an anterior ocular segment image acquiring unit configured to repeatedly acquire an anterior ocular segment image of the subject eye of the face supported by the face supporting unit; a pupil image detecting unit configured to detect a pupil image of the subject eye for each anterior ocular segment image based on the anterior ocular segment image repeatedly acquired by the anterior ocular segment image acquiring unit; and a determining unit configured to determine whether or not the face is properly supported by the face supporting unit based on a result of detection of the pupil image for each anterior ocular segment image by the pupil image detecting unit.