I don't have a picture of it but today a close friend of mine dropped his new RX100 from about a man's size (1.7 m) straight onto the stone floor. It fell onto its back right lower edge close to the Delete button. A crashing sound like expensive electronics do shook our minds...
I picked it up: Battery door was open, SD card was slightly dislodged, a bulge of the inferior wall came out about 2 mm.
What a surprise ! It worked flawlessly immediately after reinserting the battery and pushing the SD back into its compartment. The battery door closed and locked again as if nothing happened, i clipped the bulging floor back into the body, only a slight dent at the edge reveals the incident now...
We tested sharpness, functions, lens zoom, on-off ten times - no problems whatsoever! Isn't this amazing?
The "Sensor drop" function was ON per default. I'd keep mine like that for sure!
Just be aware that with a slippery camera like that the carrying strategy cannot be done carelessly.
I myself was very surprised that it survived the fall unharmed even if it did not look like that initially! Obviously, if no trucks run over it, it is still a hard nut to crack!
drop sensor should retract the lens immediately after sensing a fall (I guess they use the gyroscope which tell landscape or portrait mode)
Maybe not so lucky if the camera was dropped at , say, 0.8 meter? (RX100 lens cannot retract quick enough to prepare for the impact )
