1. In a digital retinal camera having a sensor including an array of pixel elements, a method for improving retinal imaging for retinal images degraded by saturation due to highly reflective retinal objects, comprising the steps of: adjusting the flash lamp output of the retinal camera to a point at which the detail of highly reflective retinal objects is observable; and, amplifying the returns from non-highly reflective retinal objects to brighten them to an extent that the detail of the non-highly reflective retinal objects is observable, whereby both highly reflective and non-highly reflective retinal objects are observable in one image, thereby eliminating the requirement for multiple exposures to obtain retinal image detail.