Microscope for widefield microscopy

A microscope for widefield microscopy with a detection beam path and an illumination beam path, comprising:

• a filter wheel device including a filter wheel mounted on a motor-driven shaft so as to be rotatable about an axis at a specified rotational frequency, the shaft having at least one click-in position for receiving the filter wheel with the filter wheel being displaceable between different click-in positions on the shaft, the filter wheel arranged in the detection beam path, or in the detection beam path and the illumination beam path, the filter wheel being divided into a plurality of segments, a first plurality of filters forming a first divided circle being arranged in at least a first part of the segments, so that each filter in the first plurality of filters is successively introduced into the detection beam path or the illumination beam path when the filter wheel is rotated, and a second plurality of filters forming at least one more divided circle, arranged in at least the first part of the segments, so that the segments of the first part contain at least two filters arranged in succession in a radial direction, the filter wheel device further comprising a light deflecting element arranged to deflect light reflected by a first filter in a segment of the first part of segments onto a second filter in the same segment;
• a camera with a planar detector in the detection beam path, designed to record images at a specified frame rate;
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• a control system for synchronizing the frame rate and the rotational frequency depending on the filters arranged on the filter wheel.