Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected. Robert Frank
Huge numbers of the current DSLR cameras enable you to change from shading to high contrast/monochrome inside camera menu and a portion of the progressed DSLRs even enable you to pick diverse sorts of shading channels for better highly contrasting transformation (Nikon DSLRs have a "Monochrome" Picture Control to change over to B&W). While it is decent to have the capacity to shoot in B&W from DSLRs straightforwardly, since you are stripping the hues from pictures, you are fundamentally restricting your post-preparing choices on the off chance that you shoot in JPEG organize. When hues are changed over to B&W, there is no backpedaling. Over this, in-camera B&W preparing is regularly inadequately actualized and the camera gives you no control on how particular hues or locales of the picture ought to be dealt with. In this manner, it is best to take pictures in shading, at that point change over them to highly contrasting in post-preparing.
On the off chance that you shoot in RAW, regardless of what shading profile you apply on your camera, the record will contain all data you perhaps require from the camera for effective B&W transformation. On the off chance that your goal is to shoot in B&W and see the impact on the camera, don't hesitate to set the camera to B&W mode. Amid the import procedure, on the off chance that you utilize programming like Capture NX2, your pictures will be foreign as high contrast, in spite of the fact that you can transform them back to shading whenever later. On the off chance that you utilize Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom, the pictures will be transported in shading and the highly contrasting settings you utilized on your camera will be lost. That is on the grounds that Adobe items don't have the capacity to peruse the exclusive maker data from RAW documents. So shoot in RAW and you will be ready.