Asahi Camera
Kondō left a collection of about 8,840 plates on his death. These were bought by the bus company Niigata Kōtsū (), which presented them to the Sado museum, but they were little known until 1979, when they were seen by Haruo Tomiyama (himself a notable photographer of Sado) and others. Four years later they became an "Asahi Camera" cover story, and thanks to the effort of Tomiyama and others they have been exhibited in Sado and anthologized in two books. The photographs then had some exposure in the general-interest media; for example, the 17 August 1995 issue of the magazine "Serai" (, "Sarai") had a six-page feature on them.