The hand-held measuring instrument has a measuring arrangement and an electronic control receiving a housing with a measuring opening, through which the illumination of a measurement field takes place on a surface of a measured object. An imaging pecking device (33) is formed for the color measurement of the measured light. A spectral pecking device (32) and the imaging pecking device are arranged, such that they receive the measuring field-remitted measurement light under the same observation conditions, and particularly from the same viewing direction.
