If you have the funds, hell go for the whole shebang. It depends ultimately on what your long term goals are.
You could get up and running in astrophotography with an Orion 80ED, a film SLR (if you want to punish yourself
) or a digital SLR (Canon, Nikon, pentax etc (canon generally being the prefered DSLR atm) a good quality mount (with maybe a small cheap refractor and webcam for autoguiding or a reticle for manual guiding) and a "T" adapter to conect the camera to the scope. All up around 3 - 3.5 grand. Cheaper if you can pick stuff up second hand. Oh and a few eyepieces for those visual nights.
Or to go the Dob road a 10" or 12" GS for between $700 and $1100 (get them with the crayfor focuser definately) plus another couple of hundred for some good quality eyepieces. Total maybe $1000 - $1500.
It would certainly be nice to have both.
With a quick setup dob (maybe on a trolley) you can take advantage of nights with sucker holes, while if your wanting to do imaging, the sucker holes bring on lots of frustration 'cause you want to be out there and you know its just not worth setting up. Mind you the view through and Orion 80ED is certainly nothing to complain about, but it just won't compare to a 10" dob
Your choice
