Win 7 CS4/CS5 Placing an image

Hi, can someone help me with this please?
I have this image that is showing as 9cm x 6cm in Photoshop but while I place it in Indesign it comes in as 100% but the image gets resized to 40cm x 27cm.
I was fortunate to have checked this image in Photoshop else there would have been no way of knowing that the image had been resized.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
Regards
Norbert

Norbert,
it's possible that this image was not resized at all. Does it come straight from a camera? Never saved in PhotoShop?
InDesign might ignore the x and y resolution data in the EXIF part of the file and substitute a default of 96ppi. Is that the case? Does InDesign show an effective ppi of 96?
Solution:
save the image in PhotoShop with Save As and reimport to InDesign.
Uwe

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