Does Linux have digital camera support or card reader support?

[Alan]

> I have a neat-o digital camera I want to hook up to my Linux box. Will I 
> need a card reader (does Linux even support card readers?) or can I just 

USB standards compliant card readers work well and usually cause no
problems.

> hook it up directly?  The interface is USB 2.0 and the camera is a 
> Cannon PowerShot A710 IS.

http://www.gphoto.org/proj/libgphoto2/support.php