DS-2SF8C425MXS-DLW Hikvision w/ audio IP PoE Camera TandemVu 8-inch Panoramic 4
DS-2SF8C425MXS-DLW Hikvision w/ audio IP PoE Camera TandemVu 8-inch Panoramic 4
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Description
Description
Hikvision DS-2SF8C425MXS-DL(14F1)(P3) 4 MP 25× TandemVu PTZ Camera
What could your security team accomplish if they could investigate distant activity without losing sight of the surrounding area? The Hikvision DS-2SF8C425MXS-DL combines a fixed 4 MP overview channel with a separate 4 MP PTZ channel, providing wide-area awareness and detailed close-up surveillance at the same time.
With 25× optical zoom, automatic tracking, DarkFighter low-light technology, and up to 300 m of infrared illumination, it helps you identify important activity across large properties during the day or at night. Instead of depending on multiple disconnected views, your operators receive a more complete picture from one coordinated TandemVu camera.
Why Buyers Choose This Model
When an incident develops across a large property, would you rather choose between watching the entire scene and examining the target—or have access to both views?
```Dual 4 MP Channels — Maintain awareness while investigating details
The fixed bullet channel continuously covers the wider scene while the PTZ channel follows or examines distant activity. This helps operators investigate an event without completely abandoning the original overview.
25× Optical Zoom — Bring distant activity into view
The PTZ channel’s 5.9 mm to 147.5 mm motorized lens provides 25× optical zoom and 16× digital zoom. You can examine people, vehicles, and activity farther across the property without positioning a camera beside every potential target area.
Wide Fixed Overview — See more of the surrounding scene
The bullet channel uses a 4 mm lens with an 89° ± 5° horizontal field of view. This gives operators valuable context around an incident while the PTZ channel concentrates on specific activity.
Automatic Tracking — Follow important activity with less manual effort
The PTZ channel supports automatic tracking, manual tracking, tracking takeover, and linked tracking capture. This helps your team maintain visual contact with a moving target instead of relying entirely on constant manual PTZ control.
Deep-Learning Detection — Focus attention on meaningful targets
The PTZ channel can simultaneously detect and capture human bodies, faces, and vehicles. Your operators gain more useful information for reviewing activity and responding to events across busy environments.
24/7 Color Overview — Preserve useful visual context after dark
The bullet channel delivers continuous color imaging and uses white supplementary light with a range of up to 30 m. This helps preserve visible scene details that may be difficult to distinguish in a conventional black-and-white nighttime image.
300 m Infrared Range — Monitor expansive areas at night
The PTZ channel provides infrared illumination reaching up to 300 m and can operate at 0 lux with IR. That extended reach helps protect large perimeters and open spaces even when ambient light is unavailable.
DarkFighter Technology — Capture more in difficult lighting
Both channels are engineered for extremely low-light environments, with color sensitivity down to 0.0005 lux under the stated datasheet conditions. This helps reduce the possibility that weak lighting will leave important areas visually unclear.
120 dB WDR — Improve visibility in high-contrast scenes
Both imaging channels support 120 dB Wide Dynamic Range. This helps balance bright and dark portions of the image when monitoring entrances, exterior areas, and locations affected by strong backlighting.
Electronic Image Stabilization — Keep footage steadier
Electronic Image Stabilization is assisted by a built-in gyroscope. This helps produce a more stable image when environmental movement or vibration might otherwise make distant details harder to review.
Flexible PTZ Coverage — Adapt surveillance to changing conditions
The PTZ channel offers continuous 360° pan movement, a -20° to 90° tilt range, 300 presets, eight patrols, and four pattern scans. Your team can create repeatable surveillance routes around the areas that matter most.
Smart Event Detection — Receive alerts around defined activity
Both channels support line-crossing, intrusion, region-entrance, region-exiting, and audio-exception detection. This allows the system to draw attention to configured events instead of requiring personnel to watch every scene continuously.
Multiple Recording Options — Add resilience to your surveillance system
A built-in card slot supports microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC storage up to 256 GB. The camera also supports NAS storage and Automatic Network Replenishment, giving you additional ways to protect recordings when network availability changes.
H.265+ Compression — Use storage and bandwidth more efficiently
Support for H.265+, H.265, H.264+, and H.264 gives installers flexibility when balancing image quality, bandwidth, compatibility, and recording capacity.
IP67 and IK10 Protection — Deploy with greater confidence outdoors
The enclosure is resistant to water and dust under its IP67 rating and resistant to vandalism under its IK10 rating. TVS 6000 V lightning, surge, and voltage-transient protection provide additional defense for demanding outdoor installations.
Broad System Integration — Fit into professional security environments
Compatibility with Hik-Connect, iVMS-4200, HikCentral Pro, ISAPI, SDK, and Open Network Video Interface Profiles S, G, and T makes the camera easier to integrate into supported monitoring and management systems.
What This Helps You Avoid
A conventional PTZ camera can provide an excellent close-up, but what happens to the rest of the scene while it is turned toward one target? That temporary loss of context can make it harder to understand where activity began, what happened nearby, or where another subject moved.
```- Losing the wide overview whenever the PTZ channel zooms toward a target
- Missing distant nighttime activity because illumination cannot reach far enough
- Depending entirely on operators to follow every moving subject manually
- Struggling with dark, backlit, unstable, or visually complex footage
- Reviewing hours of video without smart event detection to highlight configured activity
- Leaving large outdoor areas exposed to gaps between fixed camera views
- Relying on a single recording destination when network conditions change
- Installing equipment that lacks strong weather and vandal resistance
The DS-2SF8C425MXS-DL resolves this challenge by pairing continuous situational awareness with powerful PTZ investigation. Your team can see the larger event, move closer to the details, track meaningful targets, and preserve more of the context needed to understand what actually happened.
If your property requires broad coverage without sacrificing long-distance detail, how much more confidently could your team respond with both views working together?
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Product Support & Shipping Details
Product Support & Shipping Details
We move quickly so you don’t have to wait, place your order before 3pm EST and it ships out the same day, with everything else going out the next business day. Most customers see their package in about 3 business days, giving you a smooth, predictable delivery experience.
For Support you’re never on your own with us. if something comes up, our U.S.-based support team is here to help you troubleshoot, set up, or get answers fast. We make sure you always know exactly what to do next so your product keeps working the way you need it to.
30 Day Returns & Money Back Guarantee
30 Day Returns & Money Back Guarantee
If the product isn’t the right fit, no worries—our 30-day money-back guarantee gives you the space to try it without the pressure. You can return it within 30 days as long as it’s in its original condition. And to keep things simple, you can start the return right from your account, no hassle, no long back-and-forth.
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Technical Specifications
Hikvision DS-2SF8C425MXS-DL(14F1)(P3) 4 MP 25× TandemVu PTZ Camera
Monitor the complete scene while simultaneously capturing distant details with one advanced TandemVu camera. Its independent 4 MP bullet and PTZ channels combine continuous wide-area coverage with 25× optical zoom, helping operators investigate activity without losing sight of the bigger picture.
DarkFighter low-light technology, 24/7 color imaging on the bullet channel, 300 m infrared illumination, automatic tracking, and deep-learning target detection make this model suitable for demanding, large-scale security installations.
Key Features
- Simultaneously captures a large area and detailed close-up views
- 4 MP resolution on both the bullet and PTZ channels
- 24/7 color imaging on the bullet channel
- DarkFighter technology for excellent low-light performance
- 25× optical zoom and 16× digital zoom on the PTZ channel
- Up to 30 m white-light range and 300 m infrared range
- Bullet-channel tilt adjustable from 7° to 17°
- Automatic tracking and smart linked tracking
- Deep-learning detection and capture of people, faces, and vehicles
- 120 dB WDR on both imaging channels
- Electronic image stabilization with a built-in gyroscope
- Three independently configurable video streams
- Built-in microSD card slot supporting up to 256 GB
- IP67 weather resistance and IK10 vandal resistance
- TVS 6000 V lightning, surge, and transient-voltage protection
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Ideal Applications and Common Uses
- Airports, seaports, rail facilities, and transportation terminals
- Parking lots, vehicle entrances, and large outdoor perimeters
- Warehouses, logistics centers, and industrial facilities
- Campuses, stadiums, plazas, and other expansive public areas
- Critical infrastructure and high-security properties
- City surveillance and roadway monitoring
- Locations that require wide-area awareness and detailed PTZ investigation at the same time
- Outdoor installations exposed to rain, dust, extreme temperatures, or vandalism
- Applications requiring automatic tracking of people or vehicles
- Long-distance nighttime monitoring where powerful infrared illumination is needed
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Frequently Asked Questions
Both the fixed bullet channel and the PTZ channel deliver a maximum resolution of 2560 × 1440, or 4 MP. Each channel can record at up to 25 fps on 50 Hz systems or 30 fps on 60 Hz systems.
The bullet channel uses a fixed 4 mm lens to maintain a wide view with a horizontal field of view of 89° ± 5°. The PTZ channel uses a 5.9 mm to 147.5 mm motorized lens, 25× optical zoom, 360° pan movement, and automatic tracking to examine distant activity in greater detail.
The PTZ channel provides 25× optical zoom and 16× digital zoom. Its focal length ranges from 5.9 mm to 147.5 mm, and the approximate zoom speed is 4.8 seconds.
Yes. The bullet channel provides 24/7 color imaging and uses white supplementary light with a range of up to 30 m. Its minimum color illumination is 0.0005 lux at F1.0 with AGC enabled, and it can operate at 0 lux with its light activated.
The PTZ channel has an infrared illumination range of up to 300 m and can operate at 0 lux with IR. It also incorporates DarkFighter technology for low-light imaging.
Yes. The PTZ channel supports automatic tracking, manual tracking, tracking takeover, and linked tracking capture. Its deep-learning function can simultaneously detect and capture human bodies, faces, and vehicles.
Yes. It has a built-in card slot supporting microSD, microSDHC, and microSDXC cards with capacities up to 256 GB. It also supports NAS storage through NFS or SMB/CIFS and Automatic Network Replenishment.
Yes. The camera is IP67-rated for resistance to water and dust and IK10-rated for vandal resistance. It also includes TVS 6000 V lightning protection, surge protection, and voltage-transient protection and can operate from -40°C to 70°C (-40°F to 158°F), subject to the separate speaker operating range stated in the datasheet.
The camera supports iVMS-4200, HikCentral Pro, and Hik-Connect. It also supports ISUP, ISAPI, SDK, and Open Network Video Interface Profiles S, G, and T.
The camera requires 36 VDC ±25% and consumes a maximum of 70 W. That maximum includes the heaters and supplementary lights for the bullet and PTZ channels.

