Lightroom doesn't read NEF files

Last night, I scanned some negatives with my Nikon LS-5000. I thought I'd save them as NEFs, so I tried a couple. Unfortunately, LR 1.1 doesn't read them.
I just ended up re-scanning and saving as 16-bit TIFFs, which will work fine.
I'm guessing Adobe probably won't add support for this since film isn't too important anymore. Does anyone have any comments regarding this shortcoming?
Thanks,
Jay

This issue is well documented. It's not a LR issue. Nor is it a Photoshop issue. A Nikon Coolscan NEF is not a raw file. It is a proprietary linearized format that only works within Nikon software. Save your scans as TIFFs unless you plan to exclusively use Nikon software to process them.
There are NEFs .. and then there are NEFs.

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