Hikvision 6 MP Smart Hybrid Light Varifocal Bullet Camera DS-2CD1663G2-LIZU

The Z in DS-2CD1663G2-LIZU is the reason to specify it: a motorised varifocal lens, so the field of view is set from the head-end after the bracket is bolted down, not chosen from a drawing months before anyone saw the site. The LI places it in Hikvision’s hybrid-light imaging family, alongside the -LIU and -LIUF 1-Series models here.

It answers one problem: the position whose shape you cannot predict from the plan. On an ordinary wall a fixed lens is cheaper and you should use one. This model is for the positions where a fixed lens quietly fails.

Where it fits

Three scenes defeat a fixed lens outright. The long narrow corridor, where a wide angle spends its pixels on two blank walls and a narrow one clips the near doorways. The car park wide at one end and pinched at the other, where any single angle is too tight for the entrance or too loose for the far bays. And the yard where the thing worth seeing sits at thirty metres — a gate, a loading door, a plate — while the thing worth deterring happens at five, at the shutter below.

The diagnosis is a walk, not a calculation: stand at the position and ask whether the scene has one working distance or two. If you can name a near job and a far job in the same frame, it needs a variable lens. Fit a fixed lens there anyway and you get a camera that is technically working and evidentially useless — every clip proves something happened without proving who did it.

The other case is the unfinished site — compounds gain walls, yards gain containers — where a motorised lens lets the frame follow. Where a position never changes shape, the same hybrid-light family without the Z, such as the DS-2CD1163G2-LIU, is the honest choice.

Before you order — three things to confirm

• One distance or two. Pace the position first. If the frame must hold a near deterrent job and a far identification job, this is the answer; if it holds one, you are buying a motor you will use once.
• Lens control at the head-end. A motorised lens is only worth having if something can drive it. Confirm your recorder or VMS version exposes lens control for this model, and that whoever commissions it can see the live image.
• Mounting surface and cable route. Check the fixing point and cable entry against the manufacturer’s mechanical drawing before brackets are ordered; mounting hardware is confirmed on the order, not assumed.

Technical specifications

• Manufacturer: Hikvision
• Model: DS-2CD1663G2-LIZU
• Image Sensor: 1/2.4″ Progressive Scan CMOS
• Max. Resolution: 3200 × 1800
• Min. Illumination: Color: 0.005 Lux @ (F1.6, AGC ON), B/W: 0 Lux with IR
• Shutter Time: 1/3 s to 1/100,000 s
• Day & Night: IR cut filter
• Angle Adjustment: Pan: 0° to 355°, tilt: 0° to 70°, rotate: 0° to 355°
• Lens Type: Varifocal lens, motorized lens, 2.8 to 12 mm
• Focal Length & FOV: 2.8 to 12 mm, horizontal FOV 106° to 35.6°, vertical FOV 55.9° to 20°, diagonal FOV 127.4° to 40.8°
• Lens Mount: Ø14
• Iris Type: Fixed
• Aperture: F1.6
• Supplement Light Type: IR, White Light
• Supplement Light Range: Up to 50 m
• Smart Supplement Light: Yes
• IR Wavelength: 850 nm
• Main Stream: 50 Hz: 20 fps (3200 × 1800, 2688 × 1520, 1920 × 1080, 1280 × 720); 60 Hz: 20 fps (3200 × 1800, 2688 × 1520, 1920 × 1080, 1280 × 720)
• Sub-Stream: 50 Hz: 20 fps (1280 × 720, 640 × 480, 640 × 360); 60 Hz: 20 fps (1280 × 720, 640 × 480, 640 × 360)
• Video Compression: Main stream: H.265+/H.265/H.264+/H.264,; Sub-stream: H.265/H.264/MJPEG
• Video Bit Rate: 32 Kbps to 16 Mbps
• Bit Rate Control: CBR, VBR
• Scalable Video Coding (SVC): H.264 and H.265 encoding
• Region of Interest (ROI): 1 fixed region for main stream
• Audio Type: Mono sound
• Audio Compression: G.711ulaw/G.711alaw/G.722.1/G.726/MP2L2/PCM/AAC-LC
• Audio Bit Rate: 64 Kbps (G.711ulaw/G.711alaw)/16 Kbps (G.722.1)/16 Kbps (G.726)/32 to 160 Kbps (MP2L2)/16 to 64 Kbps (AAC-LC)
• Audio Sampling Rate: 8 kHz/16 kHz
• Environment Noise Filtering: Yes
• Simultaneous Live View: Up to 6 channels
• Ethernet Interface: 1 RJ45 10 M/100 M self-adaptive Ethernet port

Figures from Hikvision’s published datasheet for this model family — any value that can differ between variants is confirmed against your exact ordering code. We confirm the revision in stock when we quote.

Compatibility

It belongs on a Hikvision head-end: an NVR, with the standard Hikvision clients. The question is not whether it records — it will — but whether your recorder drives the lens itself, or commissioning means a laptop on site. Send us your recorder model and we will confirm it.

What’s in the box

Hikvision revises carton contents between production runs, so we publish no list that could be out of date when your unit ships. Contents for the current revision are confirmed on the order — put any bracket or mount on the quotation as its own line.

Common questions

Is a motorised lens the same as a PTZ camera?
No, and the difference matters when pricing a job. The motor changes the field of view; it does not pan or tilt. Where the camera points is still fixed by the bracket.

Can I re-frame it later without sending a man up a ladder?
That is the argument for the Z variant: once the head-end drives the lens, framing is a software adjustment — hence its use on high mounts and gate masts.

We already run the -LIU models here. Is this a different type of camera?
No — the LI in both codes marks the same hybrid-light imaging family and the same 1-Series generation.

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