Microscope and microscopy method for imaging an object involving changing size of depth-of-field region

A microscope for capturing an electronic image of an object, the microscope comprising:

• an image detector configured to generate electronic image data from an optical image;
• an imaging optics configured to image the object into the optical image on the image detector, and
• a control device having an input device and being configured to:
• generate an electronic image of the object from the electronic image data,
• select a region of interest in the electronic image with the input device,
• determine a depth distribution in a region of interest and/or in a region of the object corresponding to the region of interest,
• determine a desired depth region in the depth distribution with the input device,
• select at least one imaging parameter to change a size of a depth-of-field region, and
• set the depth-of-field region by changing the at least one selected imaging parameter to permit the depth-of-field region to coincide with the desired depth region.