Photos transfer : any quality loss ?

Hello everyone,
It's been quite a long time since I got my iPod touch v.2 but I'd never really cared about uploading photos on it until now.
Nevertheless, I'm now trying to upload a few pictures I took with my new camera on it. I actually did it by choosing the iPhoto folder I wanted in iTunes and everything worked just fine, except that I kind of noticed a loss of quality : the pictures I uploaded look a bit noisy on my iPod and they all get pixellized whenever I try to zoom in, which is really bizarre considering their awesome quality and resolution (10Mpx)...
Here's my question : does iTunes decrease the quality of the pictures you upload on your iPod/iPhone in order to save some disk space ? If so, is there any way to stop it ?
Thanks in advance !

I find this unacceptable.
Just purchased a 64 GB iPod willing to store and view my large collection of pictures (~20 GB) and I find zillions of support topics where Apple customers are asking for the most basic features: copy pictures and videos from Mac/PC to iPods and back.
Apple's philosophy (I've been an Apple user since 1981) would traditionally be to drag-n-drop from/to the desktop. Instead customers are forced to use iSync and/or iPhoto and these products produce a very small subset of expected capabilities, not the least being the forced low-resolutions pictures, requirements to convert videos to a specific format, no easy files transfers, unable to copy or delete a selection of pictures, etc.
One can understand that musics are different animals with copyright issues, and would explain why the iPod/iTunes combination is such a locked configuration.
This is definitely not the case for personal pictures. Currently the iPod should not be expected to be of any serious use as either a portable picture/video viewer or a backup device. Something that Palm PDA's offered 10 years ago. Apple, please wake up and re-consider.
/A

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