I have 247 photos and it took 5.99 GB?

I have iPhone 5, and i only have 247 photos in my camera roll, how come it took 5.99 GB? This doesn't make sense, it used to take 3. GB max! What happened now? And how can i change it back to 3 GB?!

That few photos shouldn't take 3GB.

First check that there's not other files mixed with the photos. Files may hidden. There are 100% chance of this.

Something is wrong.
I have just under 1600 photos in my camera app, with a few 720P videos and some super high resolution photospheres as well… And my camera folder is only at 2.68GB.

the math just doesn't ad up. How can you tell 5.99GB is taken up by photos? You realize internal storage is taken up by applications, the OS, and other stuff downloaded right?

Actually that shouldn't be over 1 Gig.

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