Duplicating large size (7 MB) photos in IPhoto 08

I am using IPhoto 08 with Leopard OS. I have a new camera and when I download 7MB photos to IPhoto and duplicate the photo, IPhoto reduces the size of the duplicated photo to about half (3.9 MB in this case).
When I download and dublicate photos of 4 MB, the size of the duplicated photo remains the same as the original.

What size is the original photo in the info pane of iPhoto?
My 7 meg photos are 3072 by 2304 - 6,248,448 but as imported jpegs (fine resolution) their size in iphoto is typically 2.8 to 3.0 meg
Larry Nebel

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berrett.rice wrote:
Two problems: One is that duplicating photos in iPhoto doesn't always work. Usually when I highlight a photo and select "Duplicate" I get a new version of the photo. Sometimes it does nothing at all, and other times it take me out of the event that I'm viewing making it so that I have to go back in and find the photo (which takes time. Are there updates or work-arounds for these problems?
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