Lens for a timelapse

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I haven't done too many time lapses before but I have been asked to do one for a forthcoming football match. It's an England game and the venue will be a sell out for the first time since it has been built. I have done time lapses before of crowds, cars etc and have used a 24-70 on the FX D700 but I know I will need to go wider this time. Position wise, it will be on the gantry of the main stand and ideally I want to get all four corners of the ground in view (at a push).

Now I don't have any lens that's goes wider and I've been thinking of hiring a lens for the occasions. But does anyone have any advice on any manual focus Nikkor lenses that I could use or third party? Obviously don't need AF and I don't really feel I will need the metering capabilities too much. Need to be cheap as it will probably be a lens that will only be pulled out of the bag every few months.
 
I use Canon so can only help you on the 3rd party lens. I assume you are using a full frame? If so you could look at using the excellent Tokina 17mm F3.5 lens in PK mount. It is a manual focus lens with aperture ring that would be very wide. Obviously you would need a PK-Nikon adapter.
 
tokina? I have the 11-16 for the dx.. think they do a 16-24 for full frame... not sure of distortion tho.

11-16 is only distorted near the edges, and I have read on here you could use it at 16 maybe 15mm.

Samyang 14mm manual focus for 250-400ukp might be worth borrowing too?
 
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