Itunes / ipad memory / storage issue

Dear All,
Having a major problem with my ipad.
I used the camera kit to download some pictures from my camera onto the ipad. (approx 9GB of pictures). Tonight I decided to change my TV shows and movies and noticed this 9gb chunk of photographs. So whilst the ipad was attached (but not actually syncing) to my mac I went into photographs on the ipad and deleted the imported files one by one.
This done I resynced but the 9 gb chunk on the storage bar was still showing. I restarted the mac and rebooted the ipad but the problem persisted. I then resorted to doing a full restore of the ipad but it is still there along with 3 Gb of Other.
Can anyone help me understand what has gone wrong and how to fix it?
thanks
Josh

I am assuming that after you loaded 9Gig of pictures to your iPad that you synced. to remove the pictures from the iPad you would need to connect the iPad to your PC/MAC and go to the Pictures tab and un-check the folder where those pictures are and then sync.

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