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The easiest way to work with black and white in digital is to make a normal color exposure and desaturate it with an image processing program such as FastStone or Photo Filtre. (Just move the saturation control all the way to the left.) That also allows you to experiment with different shades of gray, vary the contrast, etc. Both programs are free on the Web.

If you want to do it in the camera, you'll have to check your manual to see if it's even possible. Some will, some won't. (Trust me, though, the software approach is much better.)

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