Digital Image Correlation is a powerful tool with which full-field strains can be extracted from a series of digital images. If applied on the micro-scale of composites, the fiber-matrix interaction can be studied. To do so, different challenges have to be overcome. First, composite specimens have to be prepared for microscopy. Then, a speckle pattern for the DIC algorithm has to be applied, for which different methods are examined and optimized. Next, digital microscopic imaging systems are compared and characterized. Finally, a relation between parameters of the DIC algorithm (such as subset shape and size) and the accuracy is determined.