Assessing a camera the technical way

[Jeroen1000 0]

I found myself a very interesting CCTV article. I've heard of all the term described in it but I get totally lost when the author is putting them together.

 

F stop

Color temperature

IRE

Reflection ratio

Lux

 

These appear to be the main parameters when evaluating performance. I know vendors don't specify all of them but I can (try and) ask them to. At any rate I'm most curious about this.

 

http://www.mintron.com/HTM/Q&A/Htm/Minimum%20illumination%200.0001%20lux.htm