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ros::Subscriber is a generic subscriber class that can subscribe to any topic.
image_transport::Subscriber is a specialized subscriber that can only subscribe to image topics, it is provided for ease of use with the image_transport package.

You use them for different purposes.

Take a look at the tutorials if you want to learn how to use the image_transport::Subscriber http://wiki.ros.org/image_transport

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