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One of the more interesting camera’s announced in this year’s Consumer Electronics Show was the Casio Exilim Pro EX-F1, Casio’s top of the line digital camera, and the first model in their Exilim PRO series of camera’s is now slowly starting to make itself into the shelves of retailers around the world, with appearances in Japan and Sweden so far.

Aside from its 6 megapixel sensor and 12x optical zoom (36mm-432mm) the EX-F1’s claim to fame is its ability to shoot at an astounding 60 frames per second. (60 frames at once, or 5 frames in 12 seconds) as well as be able to shoot full HD videos at 1920×1080 at 60 fps. And Casio has also thrown in an amazing ultra-high speed video capture of 1200 frames per second! (Unfortunately that’s only at a tiny resolution of 336×96 - tiny for sure, but certainly very usable for bloggers and the like)

A video preview, links to sample videos and images after the jump!

You can check out the official Casio EX-F1 website for some sample videos at the different frame rates - click here.

And here’s one sample video to demonstrate just how versatile the video capabilities of F1 can be:

And let’s not forget this is a digital camera too, you can check out a brief first impression as well as some sample shots, albeit in not so good light, in this PBase gallery, courtesy of Teake Van Popta.

With an estimated street price of around $999, look for the Casio EX-F1 to slowly make its way to North America soon. (Hopefully) Although quiet honestly, I haven’t seen much of a marketing push from Casio for this one, a bit unfortunate, as from what I’ve seen so far, this looks to be one very versatile and fun camera.

We’ll get you more news, samples and hands-on reviews as they slowly pop up all over the web, but in the meantime, you can also drop by DPReview’s suddenly busy Casio forum to discuss the EX-F1.

YouTube video via Movie Miguel.