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.

Black and white film photography further ups the ante. By removing color from the equation, you have to focus on other aspects of the scene to make your photograph stand out.

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.