Abstract: The invention relates to a microscope having an optics system which represents an object on an image sensor and a screen that shows the image data provided by the image sensor and which is the only output medium for visually observing the object, wherein the representation capability of the optics system and the resolution (A) of the image sensor complies with the following correlation: F×N/M=0.5 A, wherein F indicates a factor, N indicates the numerical aperture of the optics systems, M is the magnification factor and A indicates the resolution of the image sensor in pixels per millimeter.

Abstract: A process for the device configuration of confocal microscopes, preferably of laser scanning microscopes is disclosed, in which laser light with one or more spectral lines is generated and directed on a specimen which contains a fluorescent dye or on which a fluorescent dye has been applied. In this connection, the excitation wavelengths and the emission wavelengths of different fluorescent dyes are recorded in separate data records and these data records are stored in a data storage. The laser spectra which are adjustable with the microscope and which are to be directed onto the specimen and the transmission spectra which can be achieved with the provided filters are likewise recorded in data records and these data records are stored. Presets for the configuration of the microscope are determined from a computational linking of these data records.