Im buying a D80 next week and found a few package deals. What lens would you prefer.
One comes with the 70-300 and a 28-80
The other comes with a 18-135
Im looking for the all around lens and im getting a 70-200 for sports

I personally would go with the 18-135 since you are getting the 70-200 ...

but it would all depend on what type of shooting you plan on doing with it besides sports ...

Just all around shooting so I need a good lens for the family pics and on the lake and so on

Im buying a D80 next week and found a few package deals. What lens would you prefer.
One comes with the 70-300 and a 28-80
The other comes with a 18-135
Im looking for the all around lens and im getting a 70-200 for sports

The best packaged lens is the 18-70 (metal lens mount) but the 18-135 is supposed to be good too despite it being all plastic.

Don't be tempted by packages with a cheap designed-for-film lens like the 28-80:

1. The focal length not adapted to the D80 (the view goes from "normal" to "tele", there's no wide-angle)
2. All the tests I've seen say that this sort of lens just doesn't have the resolution to do justice to the D80 sensor.

Charles

I have the 18-135 and like it very much except it has no macro capability.

Then the 18-135 is the one to go with as a package. (Wyatt was right on with that one.)

Or just get the body and the 18-70mm as Charles suggested.

Im buying a D80 next week and found a few package deals. What lens would you prefer.
One comes with the 70-300 and a 28-80
The other comes with a 18-135
Im looking for the all around lens and im getting a 70-200 for sports Generally I have found that it is better to have an overlap rather a gap between zoom lenses, but it really depends on what you want to do. If you are going to be shooting in either good light or with adequate flash illumination, go for the overlap. If you are going to be shooting in low light situations, either suffer the gap and go for the fastest lenses or better yet buy a third fast lens to cover the gap. (Just the economical advice that you wanted, right?:D)

Regards,

Bob

P.S. As a Royals fan, are you in the KC area?

Im buying a D80 next week and found a few package deals. What lens would you prefer.
One comes with the 70-300 and a 28-80
The other comes with a 18-135
Im looking for the all around lens and im getting a 70-200 for sports

Pay attention to the F numbers. For indoor shoots you need a minimum of F2.8 or faster. The 80-200mm F2.8 is not as costly as the VR series but its still around $800 usd.
I'm very happy with the 18-70mm Nikkor DX lens which came with my D70. In fact I had my Daughter's D80 and I took of the 18-55mm lens and used the 18-70.