The determination of a cameras position and orientation from point correspondences between 3d-positions and their image positions in computervision is known as pose estimation. Many modern applications benefit from the knowledge about the cameras absolute orientation in the reference frame at the time of image formation. To this extend a model is built from a sequence of images using structurefrom- motion techniques and SIFT features. The model is built from a single offthe- shelf monocular camera which can be moved freehand. No a priori knowledge of the cameras position is needed while model construction. In a second step the pose of a camera wich shows partial content of the constructed model is computed. Mapping these model features and the features of the new image leads to the 3d- 2d-correspondences which are the basis of linear optimization methods for solving the camera pose. The system relies on a precalibrated camera and a manual selection of adequate SIFT features for initial epipolar geometry estimation while model construction.