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How close are you to your subject? The closer you are the worse this will be. Figure out with some test shooting how far away your subject has to be for the flash to shoot over the lens. Then at least you will have an idea of when you can use the pop up flash without the shadow.
This is a tad misleading.
For example if the lens casts a shadow in the bottom third of the frame because the pop-up is too close to the lens axis, then that shadow will be present in the bottom third of every frame, regardless of what is in the frame.
If you get a shadow in an image of a wall caused by the lens shadowing the pop-up flash, that shadow is not going to go away by stepping further away from the wall.
Yes it will. If the wall is .01 inches in front of the lens, the shadow will cover 99.99999999% of the frame, if not 100%. If the wall is 100 miles away (by now it's a theoretical wall), the flash (although incredibly dim by then) will cover it. It's called parallax.