Well, I realize that one would easily get into needing to manage and store a lot of bottles if pre-prepared one-shots were made up (though I had not heard that Kodak was changing to only offering Xtol in 5 _gallon_ packages - that would probably cause me to forgo continuing to use it). It's already a given that the periodic mixing of chemicals is necessary. It's the subsequent, day-over-day, routine film processing which I'd like to make as quick and painless as possible.(posted 8206 days ago)I only process 1-2 rolls of 35mm per week. It's precisely because of that low usage that I was looking to streamline things. Say one evening I have one roll of film to develop. What I was hoping was to be able to grap a one-shot (8oz or 16oz, depending upon whether a one or two reel tank is used) bottle of (previously prepared, back when I did the mixing of chemicals) developer, along with the (larger) bottles of stop bath, fixer, hypo clearing agent, and photoflo, take 'em to the kitchen sink, bring them to temperature, and do the deed. Relatively quick and painless. And I would trade the hassle of having to deal with lots of little bottles for the added convenience of not having to mix or measure anything.
It's a moot point, of course, if diluted Xtol has storage properties significantly worse than full strength Xtol.