How best to manage the camera roll on iPhone

Should it be periodically cleared?

I do not use the Camera Roll for long term storage of photos on my iPad or iPhone. I use PhotoStream to transfer photos to my MacBook Pro. Once they are there I archive the best photos and discard those I do not want.
The best photos are then organized into albums. In my case that means using iPhoto on the MacBook Pro. Keep in mind that I also have backup copies of my best photos on two other hard drives.
Once the photos are organized in iPhoto I can sync those albums that I want on my iPhone. After I sync I'll delete the redundant photos from the Camera Roll on my iPhone.
Having too many photos in the Camera Roll makes that album hard to got through to find the photo I might be looking for. When they are organized into albums after a sync I can usually find the one I want fairly quickly.
I know you can copy a photo from the Camera Roll into another album directly on your iPhone. But that still leaves the original in the Camera Roll. Deleting that original from the Camera Roll will delete the copied versions. Leaving all the original photos in the Camera Roll makes the Camera Roll album with too many photos for me to easily find one. So I use the workflow described above.

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