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I think it isn't that much about winning the lottery. More about the time and effort to put into it. A ULF bellows that size like-new or made to order (specialized manufacturers in China) costs about 700-1000$. You can get cheaper when you get lucky with used. Some simple woodworking power tools (jigsaw, router, drill), the wood, some metal parts and screws, another couple of hundred $ (only). Aluminium Oxide powder in the right grits for the ground glass, some 50-100$. Two foldable heavy duty workbench stands to put the camera on, under 100$. Some picture frame glass cut to 20x24, like 20$ a sheet. Fresnel lenses? That's tricky, these large sizes cost like 200$+ a sheet and are a pain to ship, no one stocks them. Also tricky: lenses. Normal focal length for this format is 800mm, they are really rare and hard to find - with an image circle large enough to cover 20x24! Options are: the longer fast projector lenses from really big lecture hall episcopes (Leitz Epis, Beseler E.F., ...) - if you can find them, sometimes they pop on eBay, sometimes not. Here, a 600mm 3.6 or so should cover - but that already is hard to find. And they are triplets, so softer than a Tessar or Dialyte to the edge. Or: Reproduction lenses (Dialyte or Tessar types). Not as fast and literally quadruple the price of the projectors, but really sharp. Equally hard to find in these sizes, sometimes only like 10-100 have been made for the really large types (and you need 1000mm or at least 800mm to cover). So, depending on what and how many different lenses you want, you can spend between 300$ to some thousands on lenses. A pack of 50 sheets Fuji Crystal Archive paper costs 200-300$. Developing chemicals, buckets and the like, maybe another 200$. I think if you really want to pull through with it you can get by with a budget of 3000$ of material cost to build a 20x24 camera and use it. More important is the countless hours it takes to research all the things you should know - reading lens datasheets, history articles about optics, chemistry, understanding what exactly you need to get and how to construct and put it together.

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