At the soccer today I decided to avoid getting sunburnt and sat in a different spot - right near the professional photographers. I noticed a couple of them had what looked like laptops with some sort of "device" perhaps covering the screen to remove glare.

At the risk of embarrassing myself I need to ask a question (which will probably be very obvious to some of you). Why would the photographers need a laptop at the match? My assumption was to download the photos instantaneously but why wouldn't they do this at the end of the game?

I am very interested in some of you shedding some light on this query - thanks.