Method for correcting a color reproduction of a digital microscope and digital microscope

A method for correcting colors of a color reproduction of a digital microscope, comprising the following steps:

• recording a color image of a sample that is to be examined under the microscope, wherein wavelength-dependent properties of a microscope illumination unit illuminating the sample are determined for describing a first state of the microscope illumination unit by capturing settings selected on the microscope illumination unit;
• determining a set of correction values associated with a second state of the microscope illumination unit, wherein the second state of the microscope illumination unit associated with the set of correction values that is to be determined is selected based on the determined first state of the microscope illumination unit;
• correcting the colors of the recorded color image by way of the correction values of the previously determined set of correction values;
• and
• determining, when recording the color image of the sample that is to be examined under the microscope, wavelength-dependent properties of an optical recording device of the microscope comprising an optical system and an image converter, in order to describe a first state of the optical recording device by capturing of the selected settings on the optical recording device,
• wherein the set of correction values to be determined is further associated with a second state of the optical recording device, wherein a second state of the optical recording device associated with the set of the correction values to be determined is selected according to the determined first state of the optical recording device
• at least two of the sets of correction values are selected from the plurality of sets of correction values associated with stored and different states of the microscope illumination unit, wherein
• the determination of a set of correction values furthermore comprise a partial step in which the correction values of the at least two selected sets are interpolated
• where the wavelength-dependent properties of the microscope illumination unit are described by a spectrum of the microscope illumination unit.