Syncing photos?

Hi.
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this..
I have an 8gb 4th gen iPod touch (4.2.1) and I have been having some problems syncing photos.
My ipod photo cache folder is about 50mb and I can sync photos as long as I have at least 270mb free capacity space.
Yet when the free space on my ipod goes below 270mb, I get the error +"no photos were copied to the iPod XXX because there is not enough free space on the iPod to hold your photos and photo albums"+. I still have at least 200mb free left and my ipod photo cache is only 50mb, so wouldn't that still fit?
Is this normal? Because I want to use up all the space in my iPod but I also want to sync photos at the same time. 270mb is such a waste to compensate for photos.
I didn't have a problem syncing photos to my old 4th gen ipod nano and could sync the same size of photo cache folder as long as I had the space for it.
Does this happen to anyone too?
Thanks~

Thanks for replying~
But how come I can fill the space up when I "Manually manage music and videos"? I can put in more songs and videos and fill the remaining space while keeping the photos too? Yet when it's automatically syncing, it deletes the photos when I sync more?
Also, when I don't sync any photos at all, I can fill up the entire space in my iPod. Yet only when syncing photos is when the problem occurs.

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