Dng conversion from nikon LS4000 film scanner?

I have a mission to scan several hundred slides for archiving. I am using a Nikon LS4000 scanner. I can scan 8bit or 16 bit and save in NEF format or Tiff format. I get a message that; None of these formats are supported by Adobe dng at this time.
Does Adobe ever plan to address this issue and Is there a workaround?

Nikon scanner ".NEF" files are really .TIF files inside as far as the data inside them is concerned. There is no advantage to using .NEF format over .TIF format when saving images from the scanning software.
If you happen to have done this my mistake in the past because you did not know any better, Camera Raw 4.4.1 will actually read scanner NEF files now (it processing them the same as TIF files).

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