NON-METRIC CAMERA CALIBRATION AND DOCUMENTATION OF HISTORICAL BUILDINGS

The market of digital amateur cameras is growing rapidly. It turned out, that these cameras could change the field of close range photogrammetry almost revolutionary: Inconvenient in handling and expensive metric cameras could be replaced by “off-the-shelf” cameras if these had the same stability qualities and high enough resolution. Especially the documentation of (historical) buildings would profit from that development, if it was proved that this kind of cameras were good enough for photogrammetric purposes. The proposed paper describes the investigation on the digital non-metric “off-the-shelf” camera Olympus C-5050 Zoom. After a short