Setup as New iPhone - Camera Roll Pitfalls?

I am expecting my iPhone 6 on Friday and am planning to choose the "Setup as New iPhone" option rather than restoring from an iTunes or iCloud backup.  Historically I have always restored from a backup but when my current iPhone 5 was having signal strength issues the guy I spoke to at the Genius Bar said sometimes it is best to do a clean install so you don't carry forward any corrupt files.
So I am trying to anticipate any potential problems / things to be aware of.  I'm fine re-downloading all of my apps, music files from iTunes Match and re-doing all my settings.  One thing that seems like it could be an issue is getting all my photos and videos from my existing Camera Roll back on the new phone in the new Camera Roll in chronological order.  I've searched around and found a bunch of dated links with various suggestions for how to do this, including emailing all your photos back to yourself.  Seems crazy given I have almost 2,000 photos and videos.
Any simple and foolproof suggestions for how to do this?
Any other things that I won't be able to restore exactly as I had them?
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the replies.  So when I import the photos to iPhoto on my Mac, doesn't it put them in all sorts of various event folders?  I have Photostream turned on so most photos I take on my iPhone are already on my Mac when I plug my iPhone into it - sometimes a handful are not.  So the pics are scattered all over the place in the various photostream folders (August 2014 Photostream, etc) plus any leftovers that are imported manually.  I would need to select all of those folders and sync them back to my iPhone through iTunes and then they end up in Events folders under "Albums" in the photo app on my iPhone?  That's not ideal.  What about videos?

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