Scientific apparatuses and instruments for recording images, namely, electronic devices for recording and evaluating electronic signals with respect to time, position, amplitude, frequency, pulse sequence and pulse pattern, including data storage; optical apparatuses and instruments for modulation of phase distributions, polarization distributions and intensity distributions of light beams for microscopes; fluorescence microscopes, scanning fluorescence microscopes and laser scanning microscopes; microscopes; optical scanners for microscopes; optical detectors for microscopes, fluorescence microscopes, scanning fluorescence microscopes and laser scanning microscopes; operating units in the nature of keyboards, computer mice, joysticks and touchscreens for microscopes, fluorescence microscopes, scanning fluorescence microscopes and laser scanning microscopes, lasers, not for medical treatment; solid-state lasers, not for medical treatment; diode lasers, not for medical treatment; ultrashort pulse lasers, not for medical treatment; short pulse lasers, not for medical treatment; ultrashort pulse lasers, not for medical treatment; electronic devices for data evaluation, namely, electronic computing devices for evaluating electronic signals with respect to time, position, amplitude, frequency, pulse sequence and pulse pattern; electronic devices for time-correlated counting of single photons; electronic signals with respect to time position, amplitude, frequency microscopes, scanning fluorescence microscopes and laser scanning microscopes for controlling the microscopes and capturing, processing and analyzing the images captured by the microscopes