Abstract: The apparatus for determining the color stimulus specification of translucent objects comprises two light sources to create on the surface of an object under test two light spots which have different size. The light is transmitted from the light sources to the object under test by means of an optically conducting fiber bundle. The light reflected by the object under test is received by a lens and led via an optically conducting fiber bundle to a spectrometer. Thereafter, the measurement signal is digitized and arithmetically evaluated in a microprocessor. Due to the fact that two differently sized light spots are used, the measurement error which results in determining the color specification value of a translucent object can be defined and corrected. For this purpose, use is made of reference measurement values which have been obtained by measuring opaque reference objects and which have been stored in a memory module of the apparatus.