[trevortheblack]

Yining Karl Li has mentioned in previous posts their intention to write a blog post about modern lens optics, which should outline multiple things.

Hopefully, a general overview of the 100s of lenses they've found/made the models for, alongside how modern optics fail to be accurately modeled by the polynomial model of optics...

[dima55]

Polynomial models are generally usable for most applications. If you need lots of accuracy, such as for long-range stereo, they sorta work only for traditional and non-wide lenses.