Basler makes industrial cameras. Setting up and using this camera with your own code is quite easy:
Download the Pylon 4 camera software for Linux that matches the CPU architecture of your computer from here.
Unzip the tar.gz file you downloaded.
Install the software:
It was installed to /opt/pylon4 on my computer.
Setup permissions for the cameras so that they can be detected by the Linux kernel:
Screw the lens on to the camera body. Connect the camera using its USB 3.0 cable to a USB 3.0 port on your computer.
To test whether the camera is working, try the Pylon Viewer application:
You should be able to capture images from your camera using this app and also configure its various settings.
Pylon 4 ships with a lot of sample code that shows how to use its cameras with your own code. Build these samples by setting the appropriate environment variables and try them out:
The shell script to set environment variables did not work under the Fish shell, so I used a Bash shell for this purpose.
Tried with: Basler acA1600-20uc camera, Pylon 4 for Linux x86 64-bit and Ubuntu 14.04
Tagged: basler, pylon 
