You can produce digital negatives (.dgn) from any of the possible digital photograph raw sources in a special editor for photos, such as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom or similar. Nikon raws (.nef) are well supported in modern programs, so you should have no trouble finding one. Also the software bundled together with Nikon devices may possibly support DNG export.
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Conversion of nef file format to dng file format beta
Search for nef to dng converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Nikon Digital SLR camera RAW image to Adobe Digital Negative.
We have found 8 software records in our database eligible for .nef to .dng file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert nef to dng on Windows
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Adobe's professional tools for RAW image management and post-production
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from nef file | No | Yes | No | nef editor | No | Yes | No | No |
to dng file | Yes, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom supports dng file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned nef to dng. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Adobe Photoshop
One of the best bitmap graphic editing program
Zoner Photo Studio
A program used to manage pictures and photos
Adobe DNG Converter
Utility used to convert RAW digital pictures to Adobe DNG RAW format
PhotoFiltre Studio
A complete image retouching program
HDR Darkroom
A fast and inexpensive app for creating impressive landscape images
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert nef to dng on OS X
Adobe Photoshop for Mac
Mac version of popular digital image editor
Linux/Unix software 
- convert nef to dng on Linux
darktable
A digital photo editing and converting software for Linux
Additional links: Open nef file, Open dng file
NEF
Files with nef extension can be mostly found as raw images saved in Nikon Electronic Format that is featured in all digital cameras and other devices produced by Nikon.
DNG
A dng file extension is related to the Digital Negative (DNG) RAW digital image file format developed by the Adobe Corporation. It is used to store digital RAW pictures captured by digital cameras and DSLRs (Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras).
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