Transfer Only iPhone Photo Library to New iPhone

I have a new iPhone 6 and I want to transfer only my photo library from my old iPhone 5. I don't want to do a restore with my new iPhone because it will copy everything from my old phone. Is there a way I can copy over just the photo library from my old phone to the new?

For photos taken with the iPhone or saved from emails/websites etc then see this page
For photos that were originally synced from a computer then there are third-party iPhone/iPad apps such as Simple Transfer (which has a free lite version called Simple Photo & Video Transfer) which can be used to copy photos off your device via your wifi network. But as photos are 'optimised' when they are synced to the device, any that you then copy back to a computer may not be exactly the same as they originally were on your computer. Do you not have a backup copy on, for example, an external drive that you can copy onto the other computer ?

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