Interesting. I have no real desire to use it as a webcam (though that might be an added bonus). General consensus from here and another forum I posted on, is that USB storage is all that's required and RAW support may be out of my price range.
I did have someone suggesting that support by gPhoto (altho I do mainly use KDE) might be worth looking for:
http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php
Is this app any good? Does it do anything other than facilitate copying files from the camera (in which case USB storage should be good enough)?
For the record I have a card reader which should cope with most formats (when I get it working with Linux). I also have a video camera which takes MemorySticks and my phone takes RS/DV-MMC cards (soon to change but I have one of the cards).
Peter.