Nikon nef format

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why the nef (raw) format of the nikon scan 3.1.4 that i use whith a coolscan 8000ED is not readable/importable with my photoshop cs ?
#1
Because it's not the same file format as NEF from a Nikon digital camera, despite having the same extension.

As to why nikon chose to append the same extension to two wildly different file formats, you'd have to ask Nikon.
#2
No, ACR will still not read NEF files from a scanner.

As Bruce already explained, they are very different file formats that just use the same extension.
#4
John,

Remember ACR stands for Adobe Camera RAW. What Samuel is contending with are RAW scanner files, which are a different animal alltogether. Only Nikon knows why they chose to assign the same extension to them.
#5
Ramón,

I always forget that. I guess thats why it reads my CAMERA files.

John
#6