Photo sync volume changes on iPhone

Running Leopard on an iMac, with iTunes 10, and syncing iPhone 4. I have noticed recently the space taken up by my photos changing radically. I have photos set up to sync all photos from Aperture. I noticed the space taken up as being 5.7 GB, which seemed a lot bigger than before. I synced the phone again, and it went down to 1.2 GB. Played around some and was able to reproduce this problem. Seems whenever I click refresh to update my podcasts, then go back to my iPhone on the left, under devices, the space taken up by my photos goes back to 5.7 GB. I sync again, and it goes back down to 1.2. I can do this endlessly. Strange, no?
Message was edited by: EddieT

OK, that's cool, the thing about changing capacity from GB to number of photos. Thanks.
Here's what happens. I sync my iPhone. The iPhone shows 52 videos and 2,156 photos (for 1.01 GB), iTunes shows 48 videos and 2,160 photos. If you add these figures in either place, the add up to same number, so I figure they are just looking at the media differently. Now if I go do something else in iTunes, like refresh podcasts or just click on apps, then go back and highlight the iPhone under devices, the capacity bar swells to 5.5 GB, but the number of photos in iTunes moves up just to 2189. Videos stay same. The iPhone doesn't change at all. I sync again. During the process of syncing, iTunes says it is optimizing 29 photos. The capacity goes back down to 1.01 GB and 2160 photos, which is exactly 29 less than before, so it must be those 29 photos it is optimizing. My question is, why does it swell like that without me doing anything (for example just clicking on apps, not even refreshing them or anything).
I also have problems getting videos to sync from Aperture, but that seems to be a problem others are having that I've read on other posts.

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