B&W Filter on K20d

I tried taking some shots with the B&W filter and I can see the results as saperate images when viewed on the camera monitor screen yet when I import to Elements they load as colour images.
Any advice welcome as I don't understand why or is there something I have wrong about the taking pictures in B&W. Should I take as normal then convert with the B&W filter.

Thanks

You can't take images directly in black and white, they will always be colour. The BW filter on the camera will convert your image and produce a new BW file in addition to the original colour one.

You'll get better results doing the conversion in PP anyway.

Kris.

Thanks John & Kris for replies. Guess my inexperience is showing. As I said, I set the Custom Image setting to BW and when I saw a BW image on the monitor assumed a BW existed as it had a seperate IMGP ref. I have used the custom image BW post colour capture but as you say Kris better to do conversion in PP.

Regards

Hi John and Kris, hope you don't mind me bringing this thread up again. I've been looking through the manual again and perhaps my original question was incorrect in that I should have referred to Image Tone and B&W. I've retried this today, following the manual, step by step I can get B&W (took only 3 shots) which load to elements as B&W, then also used some of the other Image Tone settings. I know that the facility is also there in the display mode to convert a colour image with various filters,and now understand the essential diierence between the two options.So all part of the learning curve and really getting to know the k20d.
I do however agree that a PC conversion will probably produce a better B&W as one has more options available in most editing software.

Regards