Why is cycles render black and white? I have a blender project I am working on. I just started, and I made a sphere. If I switch from solid mode to rendered preview mode, I get this:


But, when I press f12 to render, I get this:


Why? Why is this happening? Please help

Here is my blend file:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/s6wato3bfp187rs/blender.blend?dl=1
It appears that you are in local view. The plane appears to not be integrated in the render layers. Perhaps you have added it in local view (it looks like a bug)?

Simply press the NumpadDivision key (÷) to exit local view.