Raw Black and White (CR2 Cannon) process in color

I'm shooting black and white in raw/cr2 mode, and when I process them through Bridge / CS2, etc., they always come up color, not b&w. The same occurs with Picasa and other raw processing packages. Any ideas how to keep them B&W, rather than converting to it after processing?
thx!!

By its very nature RAW images are color because color is captured by the
sensor and raw is simply the raw data captured by the sensor. If you want
black and white from the camera then you would have to shoot JPG or TIFF if
your camera offers TIFF. Now the black and white marker should be included
in the RAW file so if your use the software that came with your camera then
it is very likely that software would see that marker indicating that you
had black and white turned on and simply convert the color RAW to black and
white and show you that. You might think that you are getting a black and
white RAW file but you aren't it is just the camera makers software seeing a
simple flag and then doing the black and white conversion. Since these flags
are generally proprietary Adobe doesn't read them.
In the end you are better off doing the conversion to black and white
yourself. There are many ways of doing it even in Adobe Camera RAW and you
will always get better results.
Robert

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