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Depending on your requirements you can get very low bandwidth image transfer by lowering resolution and framerate as well as using compression. I got good results by using a webcam, setting it to 160x120 resolution, 5fps and Theora codec. "rostopic bw" tells me this config uses about 10kB/s for image transfer, which is pretty low.

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