Nikon Coolscan LS4000ED and LS8000 film scanner support

Has anybody used the Camera Raw plug-in with Nikon film scanners and if so, do they work? The Nikon LS4000 creates raw data and Tiff files with Adobe color management. Would be great for batch processing if they work together.

I cant see how this would work. I thought the Plug In was a file importer, in which case how do i save RAW in Nikon Scan or its PS Plugin?

Cheers

I have (recently acquired) a Nikon Coolscan 8000 and like to generate the raw (.NEF) files because they allow maximum flexibility.

From what I understand, these files are quite different from the .NEF files generated by Nikon cameras; only Nikon software (Nikon Scan) can read them. I'm not aware of any Photoshop plugin that can read these files.

I hope someone lets me know if I'm wrong.

Michael Bate

The Camera Raw plug-in was only intended to work with the .NEF files from the Nikon cameras listed on Adobe.com.

That pretty well answers my questions about the camera raw plug-in. So which format is best to use if I plan to do my final corrections in Photoshop 7? The .NEF files are not PS compatible. Tiff files are super large but are PS friendly and I just assume that would be like working with raw files. Or, would it be best to save my scanned batch files in JPEG and not worry about it?

I read or heard that all corrections should be completed prior to using .jpg compression. That doesn't make a lot of sense when you have the power of Photoshop. That leads me to guess at what I am trying to do! Thanks.
CtomG

Save them as TIFF, then resave the TIFF from Photoshop to compress it (why Nikon can't write compressed TIFF in the first place is beyond me).

Yes, everything should be done before using JPEG compression, because JPEG is lossy.