This should be taken care of by Remove previously taken images from gallery which should be implemented soon. (It will be not just images but all attachments.)
RecForge II allows recording in opus, but strangely only in 48kHz. I've had very good results recording voice with AMR/3gp, though Opus claims to be even smaller. In my work AMR required 0.1 MB per minute at phone quality, which would be small enough for field contexts. Higher quality would be good for multi speaker or bad recording environments, though. This is why allowing users to specify the recording quality is quite important.