Why does my photos on my Iphone take up so much memory?

I had about 500 photos and it was 6.0GB, then i literally deleted all except 4 of my photos. So I have 4 photos and its 5.2 GB?! Please Help ME FIX THIS it takes up all my memory, by the way i have a 16GB IPhone 5, Thanks!

4 photos would normally be 4 to 7 meg probably

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On average a picture taken on the iPhone 5 is about 2.5MB each, so 500 would be 1250MB or 1.22GB.

It could be videos in the library as well which of course would take more memory than a picture as well as you possibly using Photo Stream which is basically an online backup in a sense.

As far as regaining the space, you could transfer them to a computer and or online photo album (private of course). Many services offer that like Flickr, Google+, Facebook to name a few.

The iPhone must be big videos in the library. And you can find those big files with some app which can access iPhone library, then deleted them. An app Name "CleanMyPhone" can find iPhone big files, it can help you to fix this problem. Http://www.fireebok.com/cleanmyphone.html

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