In InfoSyncWorld's Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1 / DMC-FT1 review, Mike Perlman found the TS1 / FT1 "… to be the least rugged of them all", and says:
We dropped each camera on the New York sidewalk at each of their respective shock resistance heights and the Lumix DMC-TS1 was the only model that suffered long-term effects.