Best Old Digital Camera For G5?

Hi,
All i want is a no nonsense SLR style camera (one that i could perhaps buy different lenses for) that will work well with my Powermac G5 1.8 Dual with 4G Ram using iPhoto'09 and possibly an old vers of Aperature.
I currently have only used my iphone's camera or an old 3meg compact pentax.
I'm in the UK and i've seen old Canon G5's 5meg's going cheaply for £60 but wondered if i'd notice the quality using that or whether i should go for higher meg's.
I would like to take pics in a RAW format of my family so that i can always edit good quality pictures from the start.
I'm concerned that the huge files produced from 14 Mb camera's will push my G5 to it's limit!
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
Thanks

The only camera model among all that William Bothel lists that is not not supported in my current G5 setup would be the Nikon D4 which, as he says, has only been announced. That's why I qualified my challenge:
…to name a single digital camera that has been on the market for over four months that generates raw files that will not transparently open on my G5 setup.
I will concede that once it hits the shelves, the Nikon D4,—which will cost $6,000, body only (without a lens, warranty extra) at discount stores like B&H—then I'll have to install the soon to be released Photoshop CS6 on a Mac-Intel box.
The Adobe DNG Converter won't do you any good for the Nikon D4, as the last version that will run on a Power PC is DNG Converter 6.4.
Coming to think of it, I should have no trouble at all batch-converting the NEF files from the Nikon D4 on my inherited MacBook (discarded by my wife) running Snow Leopard or Lion to raw DNG files and copy tem to my current G5 setup, should I win the lottery and buy a D4.
My point is that, for somebody with requirements as modest as the OP has, his computer is not a limitation or a cause of concern when choosing his DSLR, which I strongly suspect will not be a Nikon D4.

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