This was STILL cheaper than buying a new phone, and I learned a lot. I replaced the whole display assembly, and now it works just fine. I may have been able to replace only the cables, but I wasn't sure how extensive the damage was and I was done messing around with it. When I reassembled, The screen was blank, but I could still sync with iTunes. In my case, it would have saved me about fifty bucks and three days without a functional iPhone. During this step, I would recommend placing a rubber band around the phone, over the home button and one near the top of the iPhone for good measure. This damaged the connection between the display assembly and the rest of the iPhone. Instead of just opening a gap to get the plastic prying tool into, the whole thing gave way at once. I pulled-up on the suction cup, gradually increasing force. The repair went horribly wrong during this step, for me. At the end of the day its a phone camera not an SLR and its still better than the older Iphone 4 camera. Overall though its still better than having a camera that wouldn't focus at all and being that Apple seem to refuse to supply genuine spare parts (Which there has to be a low against? - Imagine if a car manufacturer did that) its still good buying one from someone who gives good support. My staff member has an Iphone 5 bough at exactly the same time as mine so I was able to take a photo side by side on his and mine after my repair and when you view 1 for 1 pixel in product boxes on mine the text was just a colored blur where on his although you couldn't read the text it was more obviously text. Its not huge - You don't notice it looking at the photos scaled down to fit but viewing one for one there is significant detail lost.
Having completed this repair using the rear camera part from Ifixit I have to comment that the camera is noticeably lower quality.