Pixfra VOLANS Day Night Rifle Optic

The Pixfra Volans — One Optic For Day, Night And Everything In Between

The Pixfra Volans is a digital day/night riflescope — a single optic that gives you a sharp, full-colour picture in broad daylight and a clear, usable image deep into the dark. No swapping scopes at last light. No second rifle for night work. One optic, around the clock.

At its heart is a 4K (3840×2160) sensor behind a 50mm lens, feeding a 1.25″ true circular display — a genuine round sight picture, like looking through a conventional rifle scope, not a rectangular screen. A manually adjustable F1.2–F3.0 aperture lets you control exactly how much light reaches the sensor, from harsh midday glare to a moonless paddock.

Choose the V850, or step up to the V850LRF with a built-in 1,000m laser rangefinder and ballistic calculator. Add the optional IR torch and the Volans reaches well into the dark for foxes, pigs and deer — available in four configurations, optic-only or as a complete ready-to-hunt package.

Pixfra is part of the Dahua group — one of the world’s largest imaging manufacturers — and the Volans is supported in Australia by C.R. Kennedy, with Gun Bar a Pixfra Pro Stockist. A 3-year warranty, genuine local backing, an honest price. In stock now and ready for immediate dispatch, from $1,190.

The Volans — The Numbers That Matter

A digital day/night optic is judged on its sensor, its lens, its display and how it handles light. Here are the headline figures shared by every Volans — nothing buried, nothing to hide. Compare them like-for-like against anything else on the market.

Day, Night, Dawn, Dusk — The Volans Does Not Clock Off

The optic that does not need the sun to do its job.

Most riflescopes are built for one half of the day. A traditional scope is brilliant in good light and useless once the sun drops. A dedicated night-vision unit works after dark but is no use for a daytime sight-in. The Volans was built to end that compromise — it is a genuine all-conditions optic.

In daylight, the Volans works like a normal scope, only smarter: a crisp, full-colour image from its 4K sensor, with digital zoom to bring distant game closer and built-in recording to capture the shot. Sight in, glass a paddock, hunt all afternoon — it is your daytime scope.

When the light goes, the Volans keeps working. Switch to a low-light or night mode and the sensor draws a usable picture from whatever light remains. Add the optional IR torch — an infrared beam your eyes cannot see — and the scope lights up the dark for you, picking out eyeshine and detail well past 400 metres on a black night.

That is the point of the Volans: one optic, one rifle, one zero — from a bright midday sight-in to a moonless paddock at 2am, with no swapping and no second setup. It is the simplest way to be ready whenever the hunting is.

A True Circular Display — A Sight Picture That Feels Right

Look through a rifle scope and you see a circle. The Volans keeps it that way.

Here is something most digital optics get wrong, and the Volans gets right. Every shooter has spent a lifetime looking through round optics — binoculars, spotting scopes, traditional rifle scopes all present a circular sight picture. Your eye knows that circle. It settles into it instantly.

The Volans uses a 1.25″ 800×800 display — a perfectly square panel that renders a genuine, edge-to-edge circular image, a true 31mm round view. Bring the scope up and it looks and feels exactly like a conventional rifle scope: a clean round picture, no distractions, your eye drawn straight to the centre.

Many competing digital day/night scopes — including the popular HikMicro Alpex — instead present a rectangular, widescreen image. You are looking down a tube at a TV screen. It works, but it never quite feels natural: the eye has to hunt the corners, and the picture fights the round world you have always shot in.

It sounds like a small thing until you look through both. The Volans’s true circular display is faster to get behind, easier to hold for long sessions of glassing, and simply more intuitive — because it works the way every other optic you own already works.

A Genuine Adjustable Aperture — You Decide How Much Light Gets In

Not a software trick — a real, mechanical aperture blade.

Most digital optics are stuck with a fixed aperture. The lens lets in the same amount of light no matter the conditions, and the scope’s software is left to fight whatever it is handed — brightening a dark scene, or clamping down a blown-out bright one. It is always a compromise.

The Volans gives you something far better: a genuine, manually adjustable aperture, variable from F1.2 to F3.0. This is a real mechanical iris — a physical aperture blade you control — that sets exactly how much light reaches the 4K sensor.

In the dark, open it right up to F1.2 and the Volans gathers every scrap of available light, for the brightest, most usable night image the conditions allow. In harsh daylight, wind it toward F3.0 to cut glare, tame a blown-out scene and sharpen depth and contrast. You are not at the mercy of an algorithm — you are tuning the optic to the light in front of you.

It is the kind of real, hands-on control that serious shooters expect from quality glass — and it is rare to find it on a digital optic at this price.

New To Digital Day/Night Optics? Here’s How The Volans Works

If digital day/night is new to you, this is the section to read.

A digital day/night riflescope is, in simple terms, a very capable camera and screen built into the body of a rifle scope. A high-resolution sensor captures the scene, and you view it on the display inside the optic. Because it is digital, the same scope can work in bright daylight and in darkness — something no traditional glass scope can do.

By day, the Volans behaves like a normal scope: a full-colour image, crisp detail, digital zoom and recording. By night, it switches to its low-light and night modes. The sensor amplifies what little light is around — starlight, moonlight, distant glow. When there is not enough natural light, you add an IR torch: an infrared illuminator that floods the scene with light your eyes cannot see, but the Volans’s sensor can. To you and to the animal the night stays dark; to the scope it lights up.

That IR torch comes in two wavelengths. 850nm gives the most range and the brightest image, with a very faint red glow visible at the torch itself. 940nm is fully covert — no visible glow at all — for the most stealth on pressured, skittish game, at a slight cost to outright range. The Volans package configurations include an IR torch so you are ready for the dark out of the box.

It is worth being clear on how this differs from thermal. A thermal scope detects heat, which makes it unbeatable for finding warm animals through grass and scrub in total dark. A digital day/night optic like the Volans works with light, not heat — so it gives you a natural, recognisable, full-detail image you can positively identify and aim with, and it doubles as your daytime scope. They are different tools, and we cover exactly how to choose between the Volans and the thermal Pixfra Cetus further down this page.

When you are weighing up a digital day/night scope, a few things matter most. Sensor resolution — the Volans’s 4K (3840×2160) sensor resolves fine detail for confident identification. The lens and aperture — a 50mm objective and an adjustable F1.2–F3.0 aperture decide how much light you can gather. And the display — what you actually look at, where the Volans’s true circular screen sets it apart.

Serious Hardware, Honest Price

Whichever Volans configuration you choose, the core platform comes as standard.

Four Configurations — Optic-Only Or Ready To Hunt

One optic, two models, four ways to buy. Pricing runs from $1,190 to $1,490 by configuration — all in stock for immediate dispatch. Select your configuration from the options above to add to cart.

Shared Across Every Volans

Full Technical Specifications — Volans V850 & V850LRF

The complete manufacturer specification for both Volans models, side by side. The two optics are identical — the V850LRF simply adds the integrated laser rangefinder.

The Volans Against The HikMicro Alpex

The Volans’s most direct rival is the HikMicro Alpex 4K — the same 4K digital day/night category, the same 50mm class. Here is how they line up, on the specs that matter and on price. Note the display: the Volans renders a true circular sight picture, the Alpex a rectangular one.

Where The Volans Earns Its Keep

One optic that pulls its weight from a midday sight-in to a midnight stalk.

Gun Bar Take — Which Volans Is For You?

Digital Day/Night vs Thermal — Which Pixfra Do You Need?

They are not rivals — they are two different tools, and plenty of hunters run one of each.

Gun Bar stocks the full Pixfra optics range, and the question we are asked most is which one to buy. The honest answer is that they do different jobs.

The Volans is a digital day/night optic. It works with light, gives you a natural, full-colour picture by day and a detailed, identifiable image by night, and serves as your everyday daytime scope as well. Choose the Volans if you want one optic for everything, a recognisable image you can confidently identify and aim with, and the lowest cost of entry.

The Pixfra Cetus is a thermal riflescope. It detects heat, which makes it unbeatable for finding warm game through grass, scrub and total darkness — but it does not give you colour or fine daytime detail, and it is a dedicated night and detection tool. Choose the Cetus when your priority is locating animals that conventional optics simply cannot see.

Many serious hunters end up with both: thermal to find the animal, and a day/night optic to identify it and take the shot. If you are weighing it up, read the full Cetus thermal page here — Pixfra Cetus Thermal Riflescope — or call the Gun Bar team on 1800 GUNBAR and we will talk it through.

The Pixfra Optics Lineup

The Volans is part of the Pixfra optics range stocked at Gun Bar — thermal and digital riflescopes, a thermal monocular, and a multi-spectral binocular. Here is the full lineup.

Pixfra Volans — Common Questions

Quick answers to the questions we hear most. Anything not covered? Call the team on 1800 GUNBAR.