Photo Size is WAY TOO BIG!

Once I synch a photo album I created specifically for the iphone I notice the file sizes bloat on the Iphone to literally almost 1mb per photo. I exported my photos using Picasa and resized the .jpg files so they are around 40kb per pic. This means with around 374 photos the disk size on my PC is 26MB. Once I synch using itunes to my iPhone 3g the photos now take up around 300mb on the iphone. This is totally nuts as it is inflating my pics by a ratio of almost 15 times.
I understand that itunes creates the Photo Cache folder after iTunes performs the photo optimization. I have performed some research and learned that some people think iTunes is actually converting .jpg file types to a raw .tif or .bmp type format so the iPhone (ipod or whatever as this happens on all devices) can quickly display the image and not have to use Processor power to unzip the compressed file types like.jpg.
I guess I can understand this but to me what a joke. This is really limiting the number of files I can dispaly on my iPhone and considering that the audio .mp3 format is compressed and the iPhone can handle real-time decompression of that format I think this is more of a bug or just plane old bad design.
I would like an answer from Apple on why this is done in this matter as I could store literally 15 times the pictures on my device but currently I'm getting robbed of my precious iPhone disk space.
If you have same issues as me let me know and maybe we can get some traction on this one. Thanks.

Part of the problem is that iTunes makes multiple copies of each photo in different sizes when you sync. This is to support zooming and rotating. This article:
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/the-complete-guide-to-ipod-ph oto-pictures
has a lot of useful background info.
Alas, I think it means you won't get a solution. I guess Apple thought that with 8GB/16GB to play with, a few megabytes here and there wouldn't be such an issue

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