Disabling Photo Optimization on iPhone

Hi!
I'd like to put high resolution pictures on my iPhone to take advantage of the zoom function. Everytime I sync my pictures, it automatically reformats the pictures, and it turns blurry (as I zoom in) on my iPhone. Is there anyway I can disable the photo optimization when my photos syncs to the iPhone? Or can you suggest any alternative solution?
Thanks!!

My thoughts exactly! It seems like this would be much more of a iTunes feature (adding an option to "optimize" i.e. shitify the images or not) than an iPhone feature. It doesn't seem that all of a useful feature seeing as even most hi-res photos are 1/10th the size of a single song and you will usually have far fewer images than songs. It also make me wonder about how pictures taken with the phone are compressed and about their resolution

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