Black & White and RAW

I shot some RAW images in my camera's (Olympus E-620) monochrome mode, but can only get color images when I open in Elements 9. How do I get the Black and White settings from the camera ? ( I know that I can de-saturate the color image, but shouldn't there be a B&W image from the camera ?)

As has beeen said above, the RAW image contains all of the colour information - your Olympus software will do all the convertion to Black & White.
In PSE 9, you can take the RAW image and adjust it to provide the best colour image in 8 bit mode. Then open the image in the editor and use Enhance -> Convert to Black & White.
This tutorial might be of interest
http://tv.adobe.com/watch/learn-photoshop-elements-8/getting-started-17-converting-color-t o-black-and-white/
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Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
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