1. An arrangement for recording and reproducing images of an object to be examined comprising: an illumination system; an image-generating recording system; a controlling and evaluating computer; said illumination system containing, in an illumination beam path, means for selecting at least one reference wavelength region and at least one information wavelength region from the beam of an individual illumination source in order to illuminate an object to be examined simultaneously by at least one reference wavelength region and at least one information wavelength region; said image-generating recording system comprising an image-recording camera; said reference wavelength region and information wavelength region each being adapted, respectively, to a color channel of the camera so as to be received by the color channel; and said at least one information wavelength region being provided for detecting medically relevant information from the object to be examined; wherein at least one device for stimulation or provocation of the object to be examined is provided for carrying out functional imaging; and wherein a controllable optical light manipulator communicating with the controlling and evaluating computer is arranged in the illumination beam path for programmable modification of the intensity curve and/or time curve of a primary light coming from an illumination source, in that the modification has a temporally defined relationship with the adjustments of the illumination source and of the image recording and image evaluation, and in that a secondary light which is generated from the primary light by the modification is provided for illumination and for selective stimulation or provocation of the object to be examined.