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Depends on what you want to do with it and how much money you're willing to spend on it. However I can tell you that if you want to do long exposure pics through your scope, you will need a more stable mount than the LXD 75. Once you start to hang gear off the focuser of your scope it will impact on the balance of your scope and the capacity of your drives to handle the weight. I'd suggest going up to an EQ6 for the extra stability you will need with an 8" and gear.
However, if you just want to take happy snaps of the moon and planets, you could get away with a DMK21 and a light filter selector attached to the scope without too much worry. Or a Flea 3, a modded webcam or such. Once you start to add guidescopes and such to the setup, your mount won't handle the weight. Not unless you go about it really economically and use a finderscope and webcam as your guiding gear.
However, start adding DSLR's and such to the scope and you will have to work out the balance issues the extra weight will present.
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