An image capture device for the acquisition of the topography of a skin tissue surface, comprising: at least three illumination sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 43) adapted to illuminate said surface; an optical imaging system (10, 11, 41, 42) comprising a single image sensor (10, 41) and being adapted for the capture of a plurality of images of said surface; means adapted to control said illumination sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 43) and said optical system (10, 11, 41, 42) enabling changing the illumination directions and capturing said plurality of images with different spatial properties; characterised in that the image capture device further comprises at least two polarisers, a first polariser (13a, 13b, 13c, 45) positioned between the illumination sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 43) and the surface, and a second polariser (14, 44) between the surface and the optical imaging system (10, 11, 41, 42) for eliminating specular reflection, wherein light specularly reflected from the tissue surface does not change its polarization state and light that undergoes diffusive reflection changes its polarization state; and means adapted to analyse the differences between images captured with different illumination properties to reconstruct the topography of said surface based on a diffusive reflection model to produce a three dimensional image of said skin tissue surface wherein said means for analysing the differences between images further comprises storage means adapted to store illumination properties, the illumination properties are measured individually for each position and each illumination source wherein the storage means are further adapted to store calibration data for calibrating the intensities of the illumination sources using a reference surface with known shape and optical properties, and such calibration data is used during subsequent measurements to compensate for the variations of illumination intensities. at least three illumination sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 43) adapted to illuminate said surface; an optical imaging system (10, 11, 41, 42) comprising a single image sensor (10, 41) and being adapted for the capture of a plurality of images of said surface; means adapted to control said illumination sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 43) and said optical system (10, 11, 41, 42) enabling changing the illumination directions and capturing said plurality of images with different spatial properties; characterised in that the image capture device further comprises at least two polarisers, a first polariser (13a, 13b, 13c, 45) positioned between the illumination sources (12a, 12b, 12c, 43) and the surface, and a second polariser (14, 44) between the surface and the optical imaging system (10, 11, 41, 42) for eliminating specular reflection, wherein light specularly reflected from the tissue surface does not change its polarization state and light that undergoes diffusive reflection changes its polarization state; and means adapted to analyse the differences between images captured with different illumination properties to reconstruct the topography of said surface based on a diffusive reflection model to produce a three dimensional image of said skin tissue surface wherein said means for analysing the differences between images further comprises storage means adapted to store illumination properties, the illumination properties are measured individually for each position and each illumination source wherein the storage means are further adapted to store calibration data for calibrating the intensities of the illumination sources using a reference surface with known shape and optical properties, and such calibration data is used during subsequent measurements to compensate for the variations of illumination intensities.