In accordance with Casio's own standard with reference to the US MIL-STD-810F Method 516.5-Shock, the camera passed a test in which it was dropped from a height of 2.13 meters (7 feet) onto lauan plywood at 26 different angles.
Two days before they were set to ship, HSN's inspectors discovered that the gift set broke apart when dropped from waist height, failing the network's drop test.
This meant that for the drop-test we were able to let the Panasonic free-fall from a height of three feet, while the GammaTech was dropped from a somewhat less realistic (in terms of likely real-world falls) one foot.