1. A mobile terminal comprising: a shot setting unit for setting shooting conditions; an image input unit for photographing an image according to the set shooting conditions and processing the photographed image; a user interface for receiving a user input for determining whether to generate meta information associated with the set shooting conditions, wherein the user input is received before the processing of the photographed image in the image input unit; a meta information extractor for extracting the set shooting conditions and generating the meta information associated with the extracted shooting conditions according to the received user input; and a meta information inserting unit for inserting the meta information generated from the meta information extractor into the image processed by the image input unit, according to the received user input, to generate a meta information inserted file, wherein a data block of the meta information has a size less than 4 KB.