I want to start taking black&white digital photos. I will be using a sony DSC-H1 camera. I like photograhy.Thx

hei.
here is a good solution for you.
take the pictures just normal and then work with them on the computer. change them into black and white and save them seperatly.
since it's digital you will have the photos in black and white and color.
I find this extremly helpful. it happend to me more then once that I took a black and white or sepia photo w/ my digital camera (as presetting) and then I really wanted to have the photo in b/w so...
it's really easy...... and it doesn't cost you any extra money