I've got two that come immediately to mind:
1. If you buy a good incident meter and learn to use it you won't have any trouble properly exposing film. And you'll get your exposure faster.
2. Pre-soaking doesn't actually do anything to make development more even. How can it? If I push a dry sheet of film down into the developer, the difference in wet time from one part of the film to the next is (perhaps) one second. You are NEVER going to see (or measure) the fact that this cm or that got 1 second more time in the developer. If you push already wet (presoaked) film down into the developer, parts of the sheet get developer ever so slightly faster that other parts. Same difference.
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