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There are a few problems with the wide angle lens option.

First and foremost, yes, the details (not the image itself, which would still be a 7 megapixel one, just covering a wider crop of the scene) would become smaller, pretty much the same as if you moved further away.

Second, it might not be as cheap as you possibly thought. Mind you, it's not just the lens itself (which, in the case of the one made by Sony, the VCL-DH0730, is listed as costing about 80$), it's also the conversion lens adapter, because you can't just stick the lens to the camera, there's no screw in it, so you first have to attach the adapter (which will cost you another 25$) to the camera, then the wide-angle lens to the adapter. There might be other wide angle lenses from different manufacturers, but you'll have to buy the conversion adapter anyway, and then make sure that those other wide lenses adapt to a 30 mm. screw. There might be little choice in the market, especially if you seek a minimum quality -and of course at a reasonable price.

Third, there'll be a certain loss of quality, particularly sharpness, compared to what you would obtain if the camera had the native wide focal length you want in a single lens group. It will be so even with the one made by Sony, but many third-party lenses, especially the cheaper ones, will probably be way too bad.

As Kevin said, your best option is to try and make a consecutive, panoramic shooting. That'll allow you to keep all the detail your camera can offer at a closer range, simply because the final panorama will be (almost) the sum of several, full-resolution pictures.

The problem could be that, unless you're shooting perfectly still objects, some of them might move between shots, and if they appear in more than one picture (that is, if they're in the overlapping zone between pictures), some -if not most- panorama programs might eighter get confused, or make a mess of the stitching. Fortunately, there are some advanced enough to take that possiblity into account, and help you correct the problem, either by simply compositing the pictures into separate layers (that you can then blend in Photoshop as you see fit), or by semi-automatically detecting movement changes in overlapping zones and allowing you to select which version/picture you want to keep for the composited panorama. One of such, which happens to be free, easy enough to use and quite effective, is Microsoft's GroupShot:

http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/

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