There was a point on the path and a crossroad came up and the video exposure jumped way up. Every camera does auto-exposure differently.

I still prefer the Contours incredible quality at 60fps. Something about being able to read the logos on wheels at 30mph just seems cool.

A lot of the quality has to do with post-production. Any good camera will look bad if someone uses lame settings in their software. It took me 1/2 a dozen videos to finally get a good configuration so my videos are a lot more crisp now. I expect to continually improve working with exposure and color control. Cheers.