An apparatus designed to examine a surface includes a polarization analyser element, or analyser, placed in the path of a light beam reflected by the surface, a device configured to take digital images and placed in the path of the beam reflected by the surface downstream of the analyser, and a processing unit capable of calculating the color and the intensity of a plurality of pixels of at least one image.

 
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