Patent ID: 7929824

Claim:
A microscope optical image recording and image evaluation system defining an imaging beam path, the system comprising: an illuminating unit for supplying light to illuminate a specimen disposed in said imaging beam path; at least two digital cameras; a dichroic beam splitter for splitting the light of said imaging beam path into first and second component beam paths and directing said first and second component beam paths to corresponding ones of said digital cameras; a control unit for recording and storing image series of simultaneously recorded image pairs of said specimen; said control unit including a synchronization device for synchronizing the start time points of the image recording of both of said digital cameras to each other so that the start time points of the exposures of said digital cameras are identical within the bounds of the synchronization accuracy; said digital cameras having exposure times which can be set to be different from each other; said synchronization device being adapted to set said start time points of said digital cameras so as to cause said start time points of said exposures of each of the simultaneously recorded image pairs of said digital cameras to be identical down to deviations less than or equal to 1/1000 of the shortest exposure time of said digital cameras; and, said digital cameras having respective identical image repetition rates with said image repetition rates being determined by that one of said digital cameras which has the longest of said exposure times.