HIKMICRO Condor CQ35 Australia: Buyer's Guide (2026)

Short answer: searching HIKMICRO Condor Australia or Condor CQ35 Australia? Fit the Condor handheld to the job (your quarry, your typical scanning distance and what it has to do), not to a brochure detection figure. Get the lens right first. About 35 mm up to about 150 m, 50 mm or more past that. Foxes at 250 m sit on a 50 mm Condor (the CQ50L 2.0), not a 35 mm CQ35. The 640 sensor is FOV and detail, not extra reach. The Condor is a spotter. Scan with it before you raise the rifle. Hunt The Night is an authorised Australian HIKMICRO dealer with genuine Condor stock.

This is the Condor and CQ35 buyer guide. If you still need the whole HIKMICRO picture (Stellar, NEOS, Thunder, Alpex, Lynx, Falcon, Condor), start with HIKMICRO Australia: How Hunt The Night Fits Your Needs (2026). If the question is "ranging-first handheld or image-first handheld", read Condor vs Falcon. Use this page when you already know it's a Condor and you need to land on the CQ35 / CQ35L 2.0 or the CQ50L. Millimetres first.

Most Australian Condor listings paste the manufacturer brochure. 1,800 m detection, 1,000 m LRF, shutterless, 21700 runtime. None of that tells you whether a 35 mm or 50 mm lens suits the paddock you actually scan. We start at the job. Price, Wi-Fi bands and launch extras come after the lens is sorted.

What you need vs what's nice to have (Condor)

We're specialists. The job comes first, the extras come after.

• What you need is quarry plus typical scanning and identification distance plus role. That sets the lens. Up to about 150 m, about 35 mm class. Past about 150 m, 50 mm or more. Foxes at 250 m means you need 50 mm. Sensor class (384 or 640) is not extra reach. It's field of view and detail once the lens is set. Read the physics in our detection range and lens-size guide.
• The extras are the Condor's built-in LRF (every current Condor has one, which is why you picked Condor over Falcon), gen-1 vs 2.0 (display, NETD, battery format, shutterless), 18650 vs 21700 runtime, roof-mount and SpydaBot fit, and whether 640 buys the FOV you actually use. These come into it once the job and lens class are set.

How it goes at the counter: first quarry, scanning distance and lens. Then the LRF you already get, the generation, battery and mount. Then the Condor model we stock and support. Shop live handheld stock on the HIKMICRO thermal monoculars collection or the full thermal monoculars shelf.

Condor models mapped to quarry and scanning distance

The Condor is HIKMICRO's ranging handheld line. A laser rangefinder in the body (manufacturer rating 1,000 m / ±1 m on current units) so you can put a number on heat before you walk or mount up. Two lens classes do the real work in Australia. The manufacturer detection figures (CQ35-class about 1,800 m, CQ50-class about 2,600 m) are brochure numbers. They don't replace getting the lens right.

CQ35 / CQ35L 2.0: 35 mm / 640 for close to mid scanning

The job: scans and identifications that mostly stay inside about 150 m. Rabbits and foxes in scrub, timber edges, closer pig work, roof-mounting a compact 35 mm picture over the ute, or pairing a handheld with a 35 mm riflescope. Wider FOV than a 50 mm Condor, and easier to find heat when the country is tight.

The current 35 mm 640 we fit to that job is the Condor CQ35L 2.0. 35 mm F1.0, 640×512 / 12 µm, NETD <15 mK, HSIS shutterless imaging, 0.49″ 1920×1080 OLED, built-in LRF, and a replaceable 21700 the manufacturer quotes at about 6.5 hours. About 458 g with battery. The 640 doesn't "add metres" over a 384 on the same 35 mm class. It buys a wider, more detailed picture at the magnification you already need. LRF, shutterless and the 21700 are the extras after that 35 mm decision.

We still hold the gen-1 Condor LRF CQ35 (35 mm, 640×512, NETD <20 mK, 1024×768 OLED, 18650 at about four hours on the product sheet, 5 GHz Wi-Fi). Same lens job as the CQ35L 2.0. Don't buy it to stretch a 35 mm unit into 250 m fox country. If your typical holds and IDs live past about 150 m, you need more lens, and that's the CQ50 conversation. Confirm live availability on the product page. A crossed-out price isn't a reason to pick the wrong lens.

The 384 option in the same 35 mm class is the CH35L (384×288, 35 mm, LRF). The 384 here is about FOV and detail, not a shorter spotter. If the job is genuinely short and wide, the CH25L (25 mm / 384) is the closer Condor. Check stock before you plan on it.

CQ50L 2.0: 50 mm / 640 for open paddock and 250 m foxes

The job: past about 150 m, including the standard Australian fox job at about 250 m, mixed feral on open country, and any Condor buyer who glasses the same country a 50 mm riflescope will shoot. Image scale at distance comes from the lens, not from buying a hotter sensor on a 35 mm body.

The Condor CQ50L 2.0 is the Condor we sell into that job. 50 mm objective, 640×512 / 12 µm, NETD <15 mK, the same LRF family, on the 2.0 platform. HIKMICRO's brochure detection figure steps up with the glass (their 2,600 m class). Treat that as marketing reach. The real reason to be here is the 50 mm job. Then 640 FOV and detail, then LRF as an extra for stalks and holds.

The gen-1 Condor LRF CQ50 is the same 50 mm / 640 job on the earlier body (NETD <20 mK, 18650). Same rule. Millimetres first, generation second. Confirm what's on the shelf today.

If you arrived from a product page that leads with 1,800 m detection on a CQ35, a special sticker, or "all-rounder", start here instead. Quarry and scanning distance, then 35 mm or 50 mm, then decide whether the 2.0's display, shutterless and 21700 earn the purchase.

Monocular first: the Condor is the scan, not the rifle

Hard rule: scan with a handheld thermal monocular before you shoulder the riflescope. Glassing a paddock through a Stellar or NEOS is slow, it's poor muzzle discipline, and it's a reliable way to educate every fox in the district. Find heat, identify, range if you need to, then mount up.

The Condor is that handheld. It's not a substitute for matching the riflescope lens to the same job. Pair a 35 mm Condor with a 35 mm aiming optic (Stellar SH35L 3.0, SQ35L 3.0 or NEOS NH35L). Pair the CQ50L with the 50 mm flagship we sell into 250 m foxes, the Stellar SQ50L 3.0. Don't buy a 35 mm spotter to "cover" a 50 mm rifle job, or the other way around.

If the Condor is more unit than you want to walk with, that points you toward the compact Lynx. It's not a reason to skip the spotter. The reasoning is in Thermal Monocular Australia: Start With a Spotter. A riflescope without a monocular is an incomplete kit. Sort the scanning first.

The extras, once the lens is right

Once you've settled CQ35-class vs CQ50-class on the right millimetres, these are the questions that actually change which model you buy. Not the brochure headline.

LRF: why the Condor exists

Every current Condor carries the laser. That's the Condor difference against most Falcons (only the FQ50L ranges). It's still a platform choice, not a reason to pick 35 mm over 50 mm. The LRF won't make a 35 mm Condor into a 250 m fox optic. If you already range with a separate unit and your stalks are close, you can live on a Falcon. That comparison lives on Condor vs Falcon. This page stays on Condor lens class.

Manufacturer rating on the current Condor LRF: 1,000 m, ±1 m, including a horizontal-distance mode for slopes. Useful when distance is how you decide to walk, wait or shoot. Not a substitute for identification.

Gen-1 CQ35 vs CQ35L 2.0

Same 35 mm job, different extras. The 2.0 steps the detector to NETD <15 mK, the display to 1920×1080 on a 0.49″ OLED, the battery to a 21700, and adds HSIS shutterless so the picture doesn't freeze to calibrate mid-scan. The gen-1 CQ35 is the earlier 640 / <20 mK / 1024×768 / 18650 body. Still genuine HIKMICRO, still a 35 mm spotter. Don't let a sale tag on the gen-1 talk you out of 50 mm if 50 mm is what the job needs.

Battery and power

The CQ35L 2.0 and CQ50L 2.0 run a replaceable 21700 (manufacturer about 6.5 hours continuous on the CQ35L 2.0 at 25°C, USB-C external power). The gen-1 Condor runs an 18650 (product sheet about four hours). Carry a spare cell, don't plan a long night on one, and match the charger to the format. Battery is never a reason to drop from 50 mm to 35 mm.

Roof mount and remote spotting

The Condor body is the HIKMICRO handheld we commonly roof-mount. The HM-RMB-C roof-mount connector is a Condor-series extra once the lens is set. 35 mm for a wider sweep off the ute, 50 mm when the paddock you glass from the roof is the same 250 m country. Mounting doesn't change the millimetres you need.

When the Condor isn't the right call

If the job isn't a ranging handheld, don't force the Condor. Image-first 640 without LRF is the Falcon 2.0 (FQ35 or FQ50). Pocket walk-around is the Lynx. The riflescope conversation is Stellar and NEOS on the HIKMICRO Australia guide. We run the same quarry, distance and role logic across Pulsar, Nocpix, ThermTec, DNT and RIX. Stay on this page only when the Condor is already the handheld.

Australian Condor stock and dealer fit

Hunt The Night warehouses HIKMICRO in Australia, backs what we sell with local support through the authorised path, and will map your quarry and scanning distance to a lens class before we talk models. The CQ35L 2.0 is the current 35 mm Condor we keep on the shelf for close to mid work. The CQ50L 2.0 is the 50 mm open-country Condor. Confirm live availability on the product page.

• HIKMICRO Condor CQ35L 2.0. 35 mm / 640, the current close to mid Condor
• HIKMICRO Condor LRF CQ35. 35 mm / 640 gen-1, same lens job
• HIKMICRO Condor CQ50L 2.0. 50 mm / 640, the open-country Condor
• HIKMICRO Condor CH35L. 35 mm / 384 when you want ranging without the 640 FOV
• HIKMICRO thermal monoculars. Condor, Falcon, Lynx
• HIKMICRO Australia guide. The whole-brand map
• Condor vs Falcon. Ranging-first vs image-first
• All thermal monoculars. Scan first

FAQ

What is the best HIKMICRO Condor in Australia?

There's no "best Condor" without knowing the job. Close to mid scans (inside about 150 m), the CQ35L 2.0 (or the gen-1 CQ35 in the same 35 mm class). Open paddock and foxes at 250 m, the CQ50L 2.0 (50 mm first, with 640 and LRF as the extras). The 384 CH35L stays in the 35 mm class when you want ranging without the 640 FOV. Start at the CQ35L 2.0 product if your IDs already live inside about 150 m.

Is the HIKMICRO Condor CQ35 good for foxes at 250 metres?

That job needs 50 mm, on the spotter as well as the rifle. The CQ35 / CQ35L 2.0 is the wrong lens class for regularly identifying and ranging foxes at 250 m, regardless of 640, LRF or a special price. Use the CQ50L 2.0 for that scan, and pair it with a 50 mm scope such as the Stellar SQ50L 3.0.

Condor CQ35 vs CQ50L: which should I buy?

Lens first. The CQ35 / CQ35L 2.0 is 35 mm / 640 for work inside about 150 m. The CQ50L 2.0 is 50 mm / 640 for work past that. Don't pick the CQ35 because 640 "should be enough at 250 m". The sensor isn't reach. Gen-1 vs 2.0 is a choice within the same millimetres.

Should I buy a Condor or a Falcon?

That's platform, not lens. Condor if built-in ranging is how you hunt. Falcon 2.0 if you want the image-first 640 path and only need LRF on the FQ50L. Settle 35 mm vs 50 mm in either line. Detail: Condor vs Falcon.

Should I buy a Condor monocular or a Stellar scope first?

Monocular first. A Condor (or Lynx or Falcon) lets you scan without moving a rifle across the landscape. Add a Stellar or NEOS once the aiming job and usual shot distance are clear, matching lens class to the same job. See start with a spotter.

Is a 640 Condor longer range than a 384 Condor?

No. Resolution mainly adds field of view and detail. The lens drives image scale. The CH35L and CQ35 share the 35 mm class. The CQ50L is a different job.

Hunt The Night is an authorised Australian HIKMICRO dealer. Genuine stock, local support, and the job before the model number.

Condor & Falcon: browse the shelf at HIKMICRO Condor & Falcon Australia. The collection guide is the Condor & Falcon buyer guide. Spotting-kit comparison: CQ35 Wi-Fi vs CQ35L 2.0.