I spent a month immersed in black-and-white photography, with two of the few monochrome-only digital cameras you can buy. Here’s what it was like.

The existence of color photography has been around since the 19th century, and it offers what most consider a more true-to-life form of photography than black-and-white.

Black and white film is one of the oldest photography tools and incredibly easy to work with—a big reason why beginning-level photography classes only teach students to shoot in black and white. Black ...