Thorlabs don't make their own cameras by the way, they're white-label IDS Imaging products (at least they used to be). Most of these [machine vision] cameras w

Thorlabs don't make their own cameras by the way, they're white-label IDS Imaging products (at least they used to be). Most of these [machine vision] cameras will communicate using genicam, so you can use libraries like Aravis and maybe there's a way of getting that to talk to V4L.