Abstract: To improve the image quality and color authenticity of a white light image (5), which is sensorially acquired in the context of multispectral imaging, different sub-spectra (2) of a light spectrum (1) used for imaging are sensorially acquired either spatially separately or chronologically separately from one another and in the computation of the white light image (5), a secondary spectrum (4) of these sub-spectra (2) is taken into consideration which is acquired separately (chronologically or spatially) from a main spectrum (3) of the light spectrum (1). This approach offers the advantage that an additional spectral component (6), which is based on the separately acquired secondary spectrum (4), can thus be injected as needed into the white light image (5) or extracted therefrom, to thus achieve the desired improved image quality.