1. A method for examining the imaging behavior of first imaging optics, wherein an object is imaged in an image plane by second imaging optics and light in the image plane is detected in pixels in a spatially resolved manner, wherein the first and second imaging optics differ in at least one imaging characteristic, the method comprising: determining and storing for each pixel value intensity as a first characteristic of the light and at least one further, second characteristic of the light, and processing the stored values in an emulation step and generating an emulation image, which emulates an image of the object generated by the first imaging optics, taking into consideration the imaging characteristic and the influence of the second characteristic on the imaging behavior, generating a series of images by dividing a range of values of the second characteristic into partial ranges, assigning to each partial range an image, and assigning to the pixels of each image the corresponding stored intensity value, if the second characteristic's value assigned to the pixel falls within the partial range assigned to the respective image, and otherwise assigning a predetermined intensity value to said pixels, converting the series of images to a series of intermediate images in the emulation step, the emulation including a constant value of the second characteristic for each of the intermediate images, said value originating from the respective partial range and differing from the values of the second characteristic for the respective other intermediate images, and combining the intermediate images to form the emulation image.