If you want to edit your nef in Photoshop, you will have to pass through Camera Raw - directly or indirectly. You double-click on the nef in Finder, Explorer or Bridge, and Camera Raw will open. You make the adjustments you want and can then edit the file in Photoshop. When you save the file, you will have to choose a standard format, like psd, tiff or jpeg.
If you do not want to see the Camera Raw dialogue, you can shift-doubleclick on the file in Bridge, and it will go straight to Photoshop, applying the Camera Raw conversion in the background.
You can also save directly from Camera Raw, but you cannot save to the original raw file. You will have to choose a new name and the raw extension dng or another file format. From each file, you can always go back to the "original" by choosing "Camera Raw Defaults" as Setting. Talking about an "original" is a little awkward, as the original just is a dump of camera data. You have to display it in some way, and that way is through the Settings.
If your nef files are not supported directly by Photoshop and Camera Raw and Bridge, you may be able to convert them to dng, which is Adobe's attempt at a unified raw file format. Version 4.4.1 of the free Adobe DNG Converter handles both D60's and D300's nef files.
In case you wonder, the raw conversion in Adobe Lightroom uses the same engine as Adobe Bridge, so there is no advantage trying to edit a file in both tools.
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