May I know what's SP mode?
In order to maintain its sheer compactness, F200EXR doesn't has a powerful flash good enough for backlight and fill-in most sunny conditions. I carries a Bower SFD328 slave flash to solve backlight, fill-in and shooting large poorly lighted area.
Don't be misled by the hotshoes that big brands are trying to impose a premium luring you on their pricey P&S. Recent technologies of any USD30-USD50 slave flash can do the same job, firing at every detection of the built-in flash. Set to forced Flash at correct ISO, any GN28-33 slave flash can provide the kind of flash power that we once were jealous of with DSLR.
SP mode... on the camera's dial... i guess is SPecial mode?... its just several pre-set modes for lazy folks like me... so i dont need to mess with the P mode much.