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I have a Coolscan V for scanning slides. With both VueScan and SilverFast, I save the image as a tiff. Since I have Affinity Photo set as the default program for tiff files, the saved tff automatically opens in Photo. I find that SilverFast is marginally better, but both produce good-quality images.

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Does the Nikon Scan software still run on Win (?), I recall that I had to patch it even before Win 10 (former Win times) in order to get it installed at all. - However according to the Affinity supported RAW formats Nikon Coolscan NEF should be supported, though I never tested that. The OP can test the by the scanner software generated NEFs with Nikon ViewNX-i or Capture NX-D, if those can show up and work with the scanner NEF files. Otherwise TIFF is a good option too here.

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3 hours ago, Zaffle77 said:

Bump, is there no official reply to this or do I just go back to paying for photoshop instead of using this program that can't open what it says it should be able to?

Did you upload a sample file as MEB requested above?

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23 hours ago, Zaffle77 said:

Bump, is there no official reply to this or do I just go back to paying for photoshop instead of using this program that can't open what it says it should be able to?

Have you tried exporting your scans as tiffs? Have you tried Vuescan? You can download a free trial. It will also export to a DNG raw file. The cost is considerably less than going back to Photoshop!

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What file size does the NEF file report?

What settings from the scanner are you using to scan these images in?

I know Vuescan Pro can reprocess raw files: https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc15.htm 

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On 2/16/2019 at 6:18 PM, firstdefence said:

What file size does the NEF file report?

What settings from the scanner are you using to scan these images in?

I know Vuescan Pro can reprocess raw files: https://www.hamrick.com/vuescan/html/vuesc15.htm 

For a colour scan, ~130mb is the output, scanned at 5959 by 3946 pixels. Scanner on base settings, digital ICE on. When I try and open in Affinity, it shows a 320x218 pixel file (presumably a thumbnail).

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