A microscopic imaging method, includes illuminating a specimen with illumination radiation and capturing detection radiation along a detection axis. The detection radiation is caused by the illumination radiation, at a first time as a wide-field signal and at a second time as a composite signal. The composite signal is formed by a superposition of a confocal image and a wide-field image; extracting the confocal image by subtracting the wide-field signal from the composite signal, wherein a correction factor is used. A current correction factor is ascertained for each executed imaging and/or for each imaged specimen (1) and the confocal image is extracted using the respective current correction factor.