cannon camcorder ?

A difficult fault to describe.

Camera purchased 2006 never [slap on wrist] used head cleaning tape.
As I pan around even very slow get slight wrinkle distortion can only describe as similar to distortion of landscape caused when heat rises from road seen at distance but of course not as bad. Film seeable but distortion anoying.
Could it be lack of head cleaning [No the camera]
Many thanks in anticipation.