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Gib: The way you describe your problem, it would seem that a secondary monitor would be the cheapest solution.

I have a 21" main monitor for the actual image, and a 19" secondary monitor where I keep all the controls and the navigation window. This dual monitor setup is very convinient.

If your current graphics cards supports this (usually those physically having two outputs do, easy to check), you would most likely be able to implement the solution for free as it is easy to find a "good enough" secondary monitor for free.

One option is to use the RAW+L feature of the camera, meaning that you capture both the unharmed RAW-file and a BW version as JPEG at the same time.

This of course requires more space from your CF cards so it might not be optimal. The good thing is that you then have your BW images ready and in case you capture something truly remarkable that would maybe benefit from colour or a very controlled BW conversion, you can always go back to the RAW file.

I sometimes use this while shooting in studio and planning to convert the shots to BW in the editing phase - the JPEG's give a good approximation.