how to get pictures off the phone (running 5.1.1)? So my dad left behind his old phone so my son can use it as a music player. It's currently running 5.1.1.

There are several albums and one of them are pictures of our family. I want to get them off the the device  but when I connected the device to my MBPr (running Yosemite) and selected the phone inside "Image Capture", not all photos are showing. There's easily around 500+ photos inside various albums but I can only 29 pictures are showing which are all from an album called "Saved Photos".

Any ideas on how to get it off the device? thanks :)
Two options come to mind:


set up email on the iPhone and mail the photos to yourself (might be kind of cumbersome with iOS 5 though)
install any third party app allowing photo upload (e.g. Dropbox or Flickr) on the iPhone and upload all photos to it