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Thanks for the reply gvhoorn. I've managed to get to the bottom of this one now. I couldn't find any description of the syntax of the type name for messages from external packages. Through trial and error I worked out I needed to write this:

sensor_msgs/Image <variable name>

Now everything is working properly!

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